Thea104 Exam Review
THEA104 EXAM 2 Review
KEY QUESTIONS:
(1) What is bardolotry and what are some of the ways Shakespeare gets adapted today? - Bardolotry is the worshiping of Shakespeare. Shakespeare has a lasting impact. People are interested in the man and the mystique. 1) The Bard a) William Shakespeare i) The Bard – “He was not of an age but for all time” ii) Bardolatry – don’t read Webster or Marlowe but you are tormented with Shakespeare iii) Adaptation 1) Taking Shakespeare and making it into movie 2) Taking old Shakespeare and applying it to modern times b) Why? i) Something about the man and the mystique ii) Something about people who teach theater and English iii) Something about the characters iv) Something about the stories 1) Where comedy, tragedy, history, or romance, they all have a lasting impact on how you feel a) Theatre should have a lasting impact
(2) What are the nineteenth-century cultural contexts that led up to modernity? a) The advent of modernity i) Explosive scientific, technological, and organizational “growth” 1) Train travel a) Increase circulation of things, people, ideas, concepts 2) Telegraph a) Royal family 3) Printing press a) Paperbacks b) Pornography b) Movement away from cottage industry with the industrial revolution and growth of global capitalism; movement from rural to urban i) loss of cultural continuity and gain of self-conception of “being modern”; 1) self-reflexive awareness c) Rise of scientific positivism, philosophical materialism, psychology, and professionalism. i) Marx, Darwin, Freud 1) Professionalism – do something specific
(3) What writers from the nineteenth and twentieth century influenced playwrights and how have they
KEY QUESTIONS:
(1) What is bardolotry and what are some of the ways Shakespeare gets adapted today? - Bardolotry is the worshiping of Shakespeare. Shakespeare has a lasting impact. People are interested in the man and the mystique. 1) The Bard a) William Shakespeare i) The Bard – “He was not of an age but for all time” ii) Bardolatry – don’t read Webster or Marlowe but you are tormented with Shakespeare iii) Adaptation 1) Taking Shakespeare and making it into movie 2) Taking old Shakespeare and applying it to modern times b) Why? i) Something about the man and the mystique ii) Something about people who teach theater and English iii) Something about the characters iv) Something about the stories 1) Where comedy, tragedy, history, or romance, they all have a lasting impact on how you feel a) Theatre should have a lasting impact
(2) What are the nineteenth-century cultural contexts that led up to modernity? a) The advent of modernity i) Explosive scientific, technological, and organizational “growth” 1) Train travel a) Increase circulation of things, people, ideas, concepts 2) Telegraph a) Royal family 3) Printing press a) Paperbacks b) Pornography b) Movement away from cottage industry with the industrial revolution and growth of global capitalism; movement from rural to urban i) loss of cultural continuity and gain of self-conception of “being modern”; 1) self-reflexive awareness c) Rise of scientific positivism, philosophical materialism, psychology, and professionalism. i) Marx, Darwin, Freud 1) Professionalism – do something specific
(3) What writers from the nineteenth and twentieth century influenced playwrights and how have they