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English Theater After Shakespeare

English Theater After Shakespeare

Season 1 Episode 17
11:50
Where Did Theater Go?

Where Did Theater Go?

Season 1 Episode 18
12:54
The Spanish Golden Age

The Spanish Golden Age

Season 1 Episode 19
10:40
Japan, Kabuki, and Bunraku

Japan, Kabuki, and Bunraku

Season 1 Episode 23
11:51
All Night Demon Dance Party - Kathakali

All Night Demon Dance Party - Kathakali

Season 1 Episode 24
10:13
China, Zaju, and Beijing Opera

China, Zaju, and Beijing Opera

Season 1 Episode 25
10:51
England's Sentimental Theater

England's Sentimental Theater

Season 1 Episode 26
11:37
Why So Angry, German Theater?

Why So Angry, German Theater?

Season 1 Episode 27
11:09
The Rise of Melodrama

The Rise of Melodrama

Season 1 Episode 28
11:34
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Crash Course Theater

Comedies, Romances, and Shakespeare's Heroines

Season 1 Episode 16

This week we're continuing our discussion of William Shakespeare and looking at his comedies and romances. As well as something called problem plays. Some of his plays, they had problems. We'll also put on pants, escape to forest, and talk about Shakespeare's heroines, lots of whom had quite a bit more agency in these plays than the women in the tragedies had.

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19th century playwrights remade the French theater – first with Realism, then Naturalism.
Race Melodrama and Minstrel Shows
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19th century racism contributed to a unique and troubling performance culture in America.
North America Gets a Theater...Riot
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How did American theater develop after the Revolutionary War?
The Rise of Melodrama
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In the 18th century, audiences were ready for some really, really dramatic theater.
Why So Angry, German Theater?
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After Germany was unified, we got Sturm, Drang, Weimar Classicism and Goethe.
England's Sentimental Theater
11:37
English Sentimental Comedies weren't that funny, but they were definitely sentimental.
China, Zaju, and Beijing Opera
10:51
Let's discuss wizard theater and the rise of classical Chinese theater and Beijing Opera.
All Night Demon Dance Party - Kathakali
10:13
Learn about the all-night dance shows in India that culminate in killing a Demon.
Japan, Kabuki, and Bunraku
11:51
Under the Shoguns, we get Kabuki and Bunraku. And Samurais get in trouble for watching it.
Pre-Columbian Theater, Spanish Empire, and Sor Juana
11:06
American theater existed before Europeans arrived, and the Spanish greatly influenced it.
Molière - Man of Satire and Many Burials
11:11
Meet Renaissance France's theater greatest playwright: Molière.
Rules, Rule-Breaking, and French Neoclassicism
12:40
The French Neoclassical revival involved a lot of rules – and some rule-breaking.
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