The Theatrical Response |
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action actor Aeschylus American American Conservatory Theatre Arthur Miller artistic audience audience's behavior Biff Bragdon century character Charles Playhouse chorus classical Cleante Clov color comedy comic commedia dell'arte concept contemporary costume created creative criticism Death director discussion drama elements Elizabethan emotional emphasis Endgame environment epic theater Everyman example experience extrinsic fifth-century Figure gestures Greek Hamlet Hamm Harpagon human idea illusionistic imitation important instrument kind language light makeup mask meaning medieval Miser Molière Molière's moral move movement myth nature neoclassic Oedipus Rex painted parodoi performance period Phaedra play's playing area playwrights plot probably problem production professional proscenium protagonist psychology Racine rehearsal Renaissance role Salesman scene scenery scenic seems seen sense Shakespeare's skene social Sophocles speech stage design Stanislavski structure style suggest suspense symbolic techniques Teiresias theater theatrical theory things thrust stage tion tragedy tragic visual Vitruvius well-made play Willy Willy's