• Ibsen’s A Doll’s House • Shaw’s Pygmalion • Shaw’s Major Barbara
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A THEATRICAL CENTURY
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NATURALISM
A reflection of life the way it really was, without the artificiality of the stage dialogue of the past or well-constructed, tight plots.
Chekhov’s Three Sisters Williams’s The Glass Menagerie O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night
• Melodrama and Tragedy: a contrast
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COMEDY
• Farce (commedia dell’arte)
Moliere’s The Would-Be Gentleman, Weycherley’s The Country Wife
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DYNAMIC CHANGE
• RACIAL THEMES
Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun Fugard’s Sizwe Bansi Is Dead Wilson’s Fences, The Piano Lesson
