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- Title
THE TRAVAILS OF MODERN AGE STAGED IN DRAMA AND THEATRE IN MANIFESTING THEORY OF EXPRESSIONISM.
- Authors
Krushna, D.; Narayana, T.
- Abstract
Expressionism refers to a movement in Germany in which a number of painters to sought to avoid the representation of external reality. It dominated the theatre for a time in the 1920s. The pioneers of Expressionism are Buchner, Strindberg and Wedekind. Theatrically, it was a reaction against realism and aimed to show inner psychological realities. In the beginning, expressionism in the Theatre was nearly extinct and not understood. In France, the influence has been negligible. In England and America the dramatists are really the only writers to have been affected; particularly Eugne O'Neil, Elmer Rice and Thornton Wilder. The expressionist writers and painters took the theme of man's inner suffering and misery. They preferred to deal with pure emotion, often in the raw state, as reflecting their own anxiety and confusion. They tied to depict man 's struggle between the conventional way of living and the way he desired to live. The paper aims at vicissitude of human life and conditions of society in the Modern age.
- Subjects
REALIZATION (Linguistics); EXPRESSIONISM (Philosophy); REALISM; WILDER, Thornton, 1897-1975; HUMAN life cycle
- Publication
Literary Endeavour, 2019, Vol 10, Issue 2, p65
- ISSN
0976-299X
- Publication type
Article