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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is the painter whom Artaud writes of in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
2. Who had a prophetic dream about a plague destroying his city?
3. Which filmmakers/performers does Artaud make reference to in "Metaphysics and Mise en Scene"?
4. Artaud writes that "the symbols of alchemy provide the spiritual means of decanting and transfusing matter and must have evoked the passionate and decisive transfusion of matter by ____."
5. What does Artaud contend must be seen as as the burning projection of all the objective consequences of "a gesture, word, sound, music, and their combinations"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Artaud write about the message of the painting he describes in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
2. What does "gold" represent in Artaud's analogy of "The Alchemical Theater"?
3. What are the sources of the essays in "The Balinese Theater"?
4. Who does Artaud hold responsible for much of the "masterpieces" he wants to demolish? Why?
5. What reality should the theater reflect, according to the author in "The Alchemical Theater"?
6. What good does the author assert comes from both plagues and theater?
7. What does the author claim is the reasoning behind why the public is turning away from the "higher" arts in "No More Masterpieces"?
8. How does Artaud draw the comparison between the theater and a plague?
9. What painting does Artaud describe in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
10. In what reference does Artaud comment on Plato in "The Alchemical Theater"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the role of spoken language in Oriental Theater and Occidental Theater. What are the differences? What did Artaud make of these?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the term "Mise en Scene." What does this term mean? How does Artaud describe it? Of what importance is it to The Theater of Cruelty?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the significance of Artaud's time and place in regard to his vision of humanity and the world. How might the political and social climate affected his theories? How might his own personal struggles and demons?
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