Drama, Western
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...comedy. Eighteenth-Century Drama The influence of...London Merchant; or, The History of George Barnwell...viewed at the time as the greatest of the romantics. Gotthold...while in England the great Romantic poets did not...emergence of realism in the 19th cent., resulted in...the works of the great 19th-century Russian dramatists...in the middle of the 19th cent., but the naturalistic...assault its audience with movement and sound, producing...guises psychological, social, and political continued...civil rights and womens movements, gay liberation, and...more frequently and with greater variety and openness, notably in Britain in Martin Shermans Bent...