Art and Literature

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Art and Literature
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Question

• What are some art forms?

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Drama

• Middle Ages based on stories from the Christian
  religion
• Early 15th Century morality plays
• characters called Knowledge, God, Death, Beauty,
  etc
• Late 15th Century non-religious plays began to
  develop

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Drama

• Elizabeth I (queen 1550 - 1603) The golden age
  of English drama
• plays were very popular
• They are much less popular now
• Until 19th Century, drama was almost all written
  in verse
• Now, almost none is verse

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Question

• What language are the most famous Western operas
  written in?
• Answer Italian

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Opera
(Carmen)
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Opera

• Music, singing, acting, dancing
• classical music
• Popular in Europe and America during 18th and
  19th centuries

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Musical theatre

• Similar to opera, but using popular styles of
  music (rather than classical)
• eg. The Sound of Music, Cats
• Reached their peak in 1940s, 1950s
• Later, many movies were made in this style
• Even today, these areas are famous for musical
  theatre
• West End (London), Broadway (New York)

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Novels

• First successful novel published in England in
  1719
• Robinson Crusoe (by Daniel Defoe)
• Some genres (types) of novel
• romance
• western (historical American frontier)
• mysteries (also called whodunits)
• fantasy (set in different worlds, with dragons,
  swords, heros, etc)

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Question

• What recent, popular film was based on a fantasy
  novel?

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Fantasy Novels

• Lord of the Rings was one of the first fantasy
  novels
• published 1954