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Chapter 2 Flashcards

1
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Classifying plays

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  • duration

- Genre

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Durations

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  • 2-3 hour events
  • 10 min play (short condensed story)
  • 1 hour/1 act play - everything happens in one act; no intermissioin
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Genre

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  • “kind”/category type
    1. tragedy
    1. comedy
    1. history
    1. melodrama
    1. musical
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tragedy

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  • serious play that ends tragically (death)
  • deveoped in ancient greek era
  • very first genre
  • catharsis, protagonist, antagonist
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chatarsis

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  • purging/ cleansing of audience at climax of the tragedy
  • eodipus
  • releaving of tears painful for you
  • death of salesman - doesnt have to be king
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protagonist

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  • main character
  • forward actions
  • fatal flaw
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antagonist

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  • obstacle character oppose of the action/opponent
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comdy

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  • regular people funny; happy ending; fools, foolish behavior
  • Dark comdy and tragicomedy
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Dark comedy

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  • comedy, no cler ending not so sure about our world
  • darkness, uncertain things
  • real
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Tragicomedy

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  • beghind with tragic elements, ends hapily

- starts with death, ends happily

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History

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  • actual people/events
  • documentary drama - presents historical facts in nonfictionalized manner
  • courtroom drama
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melodrama

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  • sopa opera/films
  • suspenseful, polt oriented, music underscores
  • simple: know who badguy is
  • does not offer richness ini character
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musical

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  • play
  • mostly sung
  • overflow of emotions
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Drama’s components

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  • vertical axis

- horizontal axis

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vertical axis

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  • what invoves play; parts make up the play; the pieces
  • Plot, characters, Theme, diction, music, spectacle
  • theatrical conventions
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Aristotle

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  • created body of works called
    “the poetics”
  • see a lot theatre
  • described whaat he saw in eveyr single theatre he saw
  • components: plot, character, theme, diction, music, spectacle
17
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plot

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  • events of a play, expressed as a series of dramatic actions
  • the most important component according to aristotle
18
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plot vs story

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  • plot: how story is told
19
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Character

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  • 2nd most important
  • portrays the characters
  • human figures in play
  • given human characteriscits: personified animals
20
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Theme

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  • abstract intellectual content - whaat is it trying to say?

- central message/motif: thesis

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diction

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  • literary character of the play: poetic?
  • tone, imagery, cadence, articulation, verse, rhyme, metaphor, apostrophe, jest
  • language, the things character say
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music

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  • songs, sounds effects, score

- things that you hear other than the language

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spectacle

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  • what you see

- design elements lighting, costume, make up, set

24
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theatrical conventions

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  • aside
  • light changes/actor exits and entrances
  • freeze
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Horizontal axis

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  • time linear

- happens before play, play itself, post play

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Preplay

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  • casting, marketing, hire designers, budge, rehearsal, venue
  • decision, 6 months or more
  • poster; designers
  • dinner night before
  • lobby: house manager
  • get in seat: curtains up
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play

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  • exposition: information
  • conflict
  • climax
  • denoument
28
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exposition

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  • information
  • who, where, what, when from characters
  • era: who, where when
  • dialogue, naturally sharing
  • programs
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conflict

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  • drama
  • good play - no idea how work things out
  • conflict builds- create tension until climax
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climax

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  • sexual/peak conflict/tension

- quickly resolve

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denoument

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  • resolution/resolvue

- quick resolution; ending

32
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post play

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  • applause, curtain call, celebration and reviews
  • light curtains come back up
  • actors bow
  • applause: performers and audience
  • curtain call
  • celebration and reviews

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