symbolism
European movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which promoted the use of art, music, theatre, and writing to uncover the ‘hidden realities’ of metaphysics. The basic strategy of symbolism—the use of signs to deliver meanings otherwise unavailable—has always been present in most aspects of theatre aesthetics. Nonetheless the specific theatre movement began in ... ...
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