Street Scene | Topics for Further Study
• Research paintings that are ‘‘street scenes,’’ perhaps landscapes of Claude Lorrain, a French artist who influenced Rice when he wrote Street Scene. Pick one and compare it to the play.
• Discuss Street Scene in terms of ‘‘realism,’’ the artistic and literary movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
• In what ways could the Maurrants avoid their sad situation by the end of the play? Would better communication have prevented the murder?
• Research trends in urbanization and suburbanization in this time...
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