History of Drama Ancient Drama The origins of Western drama can be traced to the celebratory music of 6th-century BC Attica‚ the Greek region centered on Athens. Although accounts of this period are inadequate‚ it appears that the poet Thespis developed a new musical form in which he impersonated a single character and engaged a chorus of singer-dancers in dialogue. As the first composer and soloist in this new form‚ which came to be known as tragedy‚ Thespis can be considered both the first dramatist
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adapt classical models to create a new form music which allowed them to more freely express emotions. In the early years of the 1800s‚ a major shift occurred in popular music as composers moved away from classicism and the Romantic Era began. Romanticism was not a movement isolated to music‚ rather it encompassed all of the arts and was the
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Romanticism is a tool created by the patriarchal system in order to balance the growing liberation and independence of women in the modern era. As women start to see their potentiality and actualize those potentials‚ the patriarchal system tries to prevent this by introducing the hideous romanticism to the
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FRANKENSTEIN AND BLADE RUNNER EXAM NOTES Module A: Comparative study of texts and context. Comparative: compare and contrast Context: EVERYTHING‚ values and perspectives ANALYSING MOVIES Cinematographic Editing Frame composition Colour/group/shade Sound/ music Script/dialogue Acting qualities. EXPLAIN How frank represents the context of 1818 are both warnings to the evil of technology And blade runner context of 1982
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social and technological changes in society around that time. Thus‚ it is important to identify the broad time period encompassed by this era. The definition of Romanticism in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is: “A movement or‚ more commonly‚ period of cultural history. When understood as a period‚ Romanticism is usually identified with either the first half or the whole of the 19th century. The term is used with reference primarily to the arts‚ but it can also embrace
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movement. The other one was actually more eccentric than the founding father of a new movement and era which is called Romanticism. I underlined the word eccentric because he believed an idea which had no place in motto of Romanticism. This eccentric but on the other hand genius man’s name is Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Before talking about his idea which is incompatible to Romanticism‚ let’s look his at his attributes as a contrast creator. Coleridge said a poet shouldn’t use common language because
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conventional poetic form of the Romantic literary movement; but the tone and theme of her work is as revolutionary as Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper‚” “Holy Thursday” and “The Little Black Boy” and so is the epitome of Romanticism.” Wollstonecraft and Blake set the tone for Romanticism through the use of simple and common diction within their literary forms. This shift in conformity from the Age of Reason allows both Wollstonecraft and Blake to directly address the unjust social issues at hand. In
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developed in the Romantic period. The perception that the Enlightenment was destroying the natural human soul and substituting it with the mechanical‚ artificial heart was becoming prevalent across Europe. Also another thought that was at the wake of romanticism were the words of the French revolution emphasizing liberty‚ freedom‚ and individuality as well as the need in England to escape what the industrial revolution was doing to the country. There are many people and expressions either art‚ thought
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of these systems of beliefs contributed from their authors‚ creating ideas that stayed with the American people. Puritanism brought forth an entire era of American literature. Their ideas of plainness and equality transcended directly into Romanticism. Similarly‚ their moral character shaped America into what it is today. In her poem‚ Anne Bradstreet discusses how gravely ill she feels and how ready she is for death. To put into context‚ she specifies how she feels as if her life is over‚ and
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evolve. Astronomy became a large topic of conversation among the artists and many of their works show how this influenced them. 2. Romanticism Romanticism‚ often thought of as a reaction to Neoclassicism and the Age of Enlightenment‚ was introduced in the 19th century. Unlike Neoclassicism or The Age of Enlightenment‚ which focused on harmony and reason‚ Romanticism opposed the rational thought and played on the emotions. Seen mostly in literature‚ visual art and music‚ this type of art often included
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