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Modern Theatre History

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Romanticism- movement with emphasis on emotion and imagination

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Melodrama- highly dramatic, over performed style of theatre

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Realism movement to represent truth and reality on stage, no symbolism

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Henrik Ibsen realistic playwright

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Edwin Forrest:

American Actor, first American ‘Superstar’

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Edwin Booth:

One of the most famous Shakespearean Actors of the 19th Century

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