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Dr. Eric W. Trumbull, Professor, Theatre/Speech
Research Paper Topics Note: This is a list of possible term paper topics, but you are in no way limited to choosing from among the titles below. Please refer to the links at the end of the list for additional sites that offer possibilities for research.
Actor and player: Richard Burbage and Edward Alleyn Director and Designer: Kazan and Mielziner's plans for Death of a Salesman African American Narrative Drama Bunraku Puppets Sara Berhardt's Phedre The Children's Companies of Shakespeare's Day Max Reinhardt: Director Picasso's Parade Blackface: Minstrelsy and negative images of Black Americans The Roman Ideal: A survey of Renaissance and Baroque Costume Chinese Opera Four centuries of Midsummer Night's Dream: Shakespeare, Tieck, Reinhardt, and Peter Brook Focus on important women in the theatre (e.g. Caroline Neuber, Ellen Franz, Mme. Vestris, Ellen Terry, Eleanora Duse, Sarah Bernhardt, Rachel, Janet Achurch, Stella Adler) Rangda Barong (or another non-western theatrical ritual) The Elizabethan shareholder system How the Chinese acting technique of Mei Lan Fang influenced Brecht Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre "Voodoo" Macbeth Actresses on the Restoration Stage New Discoveries about The Rose Theatre Stanislavski and Strasberg compared The use of historically accurate costumes on stage The Master Betty phenomenon Lope de Vega and The Spanish Golden Age The staging of Fuente Ovejuna Immanuel Kant and theatre Theatrical practices of the Bancrofts at the Prince of Wales Epic Theatre's influence on contemporary staging The Duke of Saxe Meiningen's contribution to theatre art Robert Edmond Jones - first professional scenographer in America Adolphe Appia and stage lighting innovations Developments in stage lighting from candles to candlepower The Theatrical Syndicate Focus on an important actor (e.g. Edwin Booth, Kemble, Kean, Henry Irving, Macready, Edwin Forrest, Olivier, Garrick, Macklin, Betterton) Arlechino: the most famous Zanni Picasso and stage design The Theatre Guild The Federal Theatre The Group Theatre The Irish Players Eugene O'Neill and the Provincetown Players Erwin Piscator and projected scenery David Belasco, Theatrical Producer Artaud's influence on theatre Josef Svoboda, master scenographer The Living Theatre Richard Foreman and the Ontological/Hysterical Theatre The Wooster Group Robert Wilson's CiViL WaRs The Cinema and Theatre Kabuki Noh Performance Art The Wooster Group
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THE 3100 Theatre
History -- Fall
Semester, 1995 -- University
of South Florida, Tampa
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