Topics - Chapter 11

Hey Class,
Below is the list of choices for your 1-page briefing reports due on Jan. 29th.

Please respond to let me know which topic you've chosen. First come; first served. If your choice is already taken, pick something else!

Thanks!!

Anna Cora Mowatt
Romanticism
Melodrama
Francois Delsarte
Ira Aldridge
Sarah Bernhardt
Eleonora Duse
Laura Keene
Richard Wagner (Festspielhaus)
Georg II, Ducke of Saxe-Meiningen
Theatre Architecture of 1800s
Edwin Booth/Booth’s Theatre
Technical Theatre (advances) in 1800s
Set/Lighting Design advances
Costume Design advances
Madame Vestris
Ivan Turgenev’s A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY
Leo Tolstoy’s THE POWER OF DARKNESS
Popular entertainment: minstrel shows, vaudeville, circus.
Goethe’s FAUST, PART 1 AND PART II
Alexander Pushkin
Daguerre’s diorama
Victor Hugo
Buchner’s WOYZECK
Dumas fils’s CAMILLE
UNCLE TOM’S CABIN (Harriet Beecher Stowe & George L. Aiken)
Victorien Sardou
Zola’s THERESE RAQUIN
Nikolai Gogol
P.T. Barnum
Paris Opera
Context: 19th century culture and politics as relevant to theatre