Papers by Martin Springer
When we examine modern tragedy, that is, tragedies written from the end of the 19 th century and ... more When we examine modern tragedy, that is, tragedies written from the end of the 19 th century and into the 20 th , one figure stands. [Ibsen realized the potential of many thinkers and playwrights who wanted to "modernize" drama in accord with the new sense of social and natural science and likewise create tragedy for modernity. Mention Hebbel, Hettner, and Zola. Find support that naturalism assumed a visual and rationalist approach to the study of human qualities. The aims of naturalism and Ibsen's interest in this. Ibsen successfully brought together tragedy and the theatrical strategies of naturalism more than any other playwright of his time. He used the principles of naturalism to recreate tragedy for modernity, and in doing so, he revealed how tragedy can take advantage of the perceptual possibilities of the stage. He drew upon the theater's simultaneous needs to draw our attention to real bodies and objects on stage as well as evoke our metaphoric and imaginative responses to those material phenomena. By doing so, he set the stage for how much of modern tragedy presented primarily in the naturalistic mode would be conceived and developed in the theater. ] While Ibsen worked on Pillars of Society (1877), his first play to use the naturalist techniques of colloquial dialogue, objectivity, and a tight plot (Meyer, 436), he wrote in a journal that he understood where the tragic conflict is in modern society but that the poetic grandeur of Brand was too remote from ordinary life for portraying this conflict on stage.
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Papers by Martin Springer