Know the following things:

1. What challenged theater as a dramatic medium?

2. Advantages of film over theatre

3. Collective mind

4. Aesthetic distance

5. Participatory theater vs. Observed

6. Psychodrama

7. Flashbacks

8. Elizabethan drama

9. Anachronism

10. Simile/Metaphor

11. Realistic theater

12. Soliloquy

13. Pantomime

14. Theater of fact

15. Willing suspension of disbelief

16. Raisin in the Sun

17. Darwin, Marx, Freud, Einstein

18. Architecture of Broadway theaters

19. Regional theaters

20. Off-Broadway

21. Meanings of "criticize"

22. Questions by which to judge play

23. Aristotle, Horace

24. Critic/Reviewer

25. Fefu and Her Friends

26. Mel Gussow

27. Susan Glaspell

28. Prescriptive/Descriptive criticism

29. Plot of Raisin in the Sun

30. Off-Off-Broadway

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