https://padlet.com/elliegeorge2000/1i6k5yhk05rx ... en-us 2016-10-14 13:45:26 UTC 2016-10-14 14:49:35 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lovecookie.png elliegeorge2000 https://padlet.com/elliegeorge2000/1i6k5yhk05rx/wish/130738536 'The well made play'
The well-made play is a dramatic genre from nineteenth-century theatre. The 'well made play' has a formulaic structure that usually consists of the central character meeting a dilemma, then building towards a highpoint followed by a final outcome, usually a solution to the said problem.

]]> 2016-10-14 13:50:57 UTC https://padlet.com/elliegeorge2000/1i6k5yhk05rx/wish/130738536 elliegeorge2000 https://padlet.com/elliegeorge2000/1i6k5yhk05rx/wish/130742992  This is a method of filmmaking that signifies characters and locations as they actually would be, as opposed to trying to create artificial drama and effects. Originating in the later 19th century, naturalism is a movement in the theatre that aimed to present ordinary life as accurately as possible, without illusions or fictional pretence. Naturalism is the opposite of melodrama.

]]> 2016-10-14 14:01:16 UTC https://padlet.com/elliegeorge2000/1i6k5yhk05rx/wish/130742992 elliegeorge2000 https://padlet.com/elliegeorge2000/1i6k5yhk05rx/wish/130745016 Melodrama is a form of drama with exaggerated acting, extreme emotions and often comical overreaction. Mass audiences were fascinated by its emphasis on fast far-fetched action and larger-than-life heroes and villains. In the mid 19th century the genre developed to include domestic tragedies, realistic dramas. Melodrama is the opposite of naturalism.

]]> 2016-10-14 14:06:11 UTC https://padlet.com/elliegeorge2000/1i6k5yhk05rx/wish/130745016 elliegeorge2000 https://padlet.com/elliegeorge2000/1i6k5yhk05rx/wish/130748875 Realism is the conception that theatres and plays imitate a realistic situation, one which could occur in our world under all the given conditions. It is separate from fantasy, which does not entail reality. It aims to replace the artificial idealistic style of theatre with accurate representations of ordinary people in believable circumstances. In attempting to create a perfect illusion of reality.

]]> 2016-10-14 14:14:54 UTC https://padlet.com/elliegeorge2000/1i6k5yhk05rx/wish/130748875 elliegeorge2000 https://padlet.com/elliegeorge2000/1i6k5yhk05rx/wish/130753098 Applied to works of art and literature that exceed the viewer or reader's sense of modesty—the extent of tolerable emotion. Sentimentality often involves situations which conjure very intense feelings, for example love affairs, childbirth and death, but where the feelings are expressed with reduced intensity and duration of emotional experience.

]]> 2016-10-14 14:23:21 UTC https://padlet.com/elliegeorge2000/1i6k5yhk05rx/wish/130753098 elliegeorge2000 https://padlet.com/elliegeorge2000/1i6k5yhk05rx/wish/130758849 A Doll's House was based on the life of Laura Kieler, a good friend of Henrik Ibsen, the author. Much that happened between Nora and Torvald happened to Laura and her husband, Victor. This suggests that the type of drama is 'realism', because not only did they attempt  to create accurate representations, but no matter what they would come across as realistic, due to the fact that it is based on real life.
We may also interpret 'A Dolls House' as a sentimental drama, as it includes situations of intense feelings, for example when Nora leaves her husband and her three children, or when she experiences domestic violence through Torvald manipulating and controlling her, and when he slaps and shoves her.
It may also be a form of naturalist theatre, due to the fact that Nora's experiences and the way she lives her life would be one in which many women of the nineteenth century can relate to. For example, Torvald says "no man would give up his sense of pride for love" and Nora replies "millions of women around the world have." In fact, this play may have been a realisation and awakening for many women who may have gone on to do the same as Nora.]]> 2016-10-14 14:37:07 UTC https://padlet.com/elliegeorge2000/1i6k5yhk05rx/wish/130758849