naturalism
Although the term has come to be applied to any drama which depicts recognizable characters in everyday situations, naturalism properly refers to a nineteenth-century European movement influenced by positivist sociology, natural history, and empirical scientific method. It is marked by a realistic representation of contemporary life, in ... ...
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