Dec 24, 2009

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...