LITERATURE QUESTIONS
INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDIES
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Epic theater is plot-driven theater.
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Epic theater turns the passive spectator into an active observer.
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Epic theater privileges feeling over reason.
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Epic theater maintains the illusion of realism.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: (B) (a), (c) and (d) are correct; (b) is wrong. Bertolt Brecht’s Epic Theatre turns the spectator into an observer, relies on argument, and presents man as a process. It does not wear down the spectator’s capacity for action, rather encourages it.
Detailed explanation-2: -Brecht believed that the theatre should be enjoyed by everyone, not just the upper class. He created what he called a “smokers theatre” where the members of the audience could smoke and drink, thereby relaxing them and opening their minds to be inspired to act.
Detailed explanation-3: -epic theatre, German episches Theater, form of didactic drama presenting a series of loosely connected scenes that avoid illusion and often interrupt the story line to address the audience directly with analysis, argument, or documentation.
Detailed explanation-4: -Brecht influenced the history of drama by creating epic theatre, which was based on the idea that the theatre should not seek to make its audience believe in the presence of the characters on the stage but instead make it realize that what it sees on the stage is merely an account of past events.