What is symbolism? A method of making a character or an action, a situation or a setting, stand for more than itself.
÷ What was the origin of symbolism, and how did it evolve?
ç romanticism
ç Wagnerian music-drama
ç Edgar Allen Poe
ç Charles Beaudelare
ç A European movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in reaction to realism and naturalism.
What fundamental theatrical problem did romanticism pose, and how did symbolism address that problem?
÷ Symbolist theater attempted to dramatize more poetic or metaphorical situations, often using unusual stage setting and ethereal dramatic action and language.
Who was Stephane Mallarme? A French poet, symbolism rooted in his work. The most important symbolist poet/thinker who sought to make drama reflect the mental or spiritual life rather than the crude world of the senses
ç under Mallarmé's theory, the symbolists saw art not only as expression, but primarily as a mode of expression
What was his importance in the development of the basic concepts of symbolism in the theatre?
ç the rejection of any representation of realistic place and time
ç the focus on inner, subjective, emotional experience
ç the abandonment of rational "meaning"
ç the use of indirection
ç the exploration of music, poetry, and dance in the symbolist theatre
ç the use of formal elements
÷ To what extent did symbolism in the theatre represent
ç new forms of staging
ç new dramatic forms
ç new social movements
÷ Who was Paul Fort?
An 18-year-old poet who founded the Art Theatre in 1890
o he committed the theatre to a symbolist repertoire in 1891
o his most notable productions were Maeterlick's The Intruder and The Blind.
o these plays represent the interior life of the characters through atmospheric effect
Playwright Maurice Maeterlinck asked "Is a static...
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