... in greek fashion and in the style of the english morality plays'Everyman'.A request for a pageant play to raise funds for church building started Eliot off on his quest for a modern poetic drama.The effectiveness of 'the Rock'choruses ensured that the device would become an important feature of ... shrines.He had a director withwhom he could work, and he had the chance to further the cause of poetic drama.The topic martyrdom attracted Eliot ,as did the nature of the events and its significance for a modern audience. That significance was brought out through the choruses, and the ... conf...

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... music, such as the introduction of an atonal ending in A. Schoenberg's Second String Quartet, expressionistic facets in the paintings of W. Kadinsky, the upcoming movement of fauvism, distinct writers such as T.S Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, F. Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein (to name a few) and the invention and creativity of cubism from the studios of Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, George's Braque and many others, became ... , Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Jules Pascin, Hilaire Belloc, Wyndham Lewis, Salvador Dali, Paul Gauguin, Cole Porter, Georges Braques, Pablo Picasso, Waldo Peirce, D...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate