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addresser

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extratextual level: Author
intratextual level: Characters

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adressee

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extratextual level: real reade, audience
intratextual llevel: Character

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primary text

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dialogue and character remarks on the intratextual level, spoken by the actors

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secondary text

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includes all constituent parts of a dramatic text (stage directions, title of the play, preface)

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“the absolute nature of dramatic texts” (Pfister)

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lack of mediating level of communication -> no narrator
a characteristic aspect of drama

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epic drama

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drama containing narrative elements

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alienation effect

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“Verfremdungseffekt”

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exposition

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transmission of introductory information requiered to understand the initial dramatic effect
referential function: informing the reader about the history preceding the action, introducing them to time and place of the action as well as the characters
initial - integrated

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introduction

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establishes a communication channel between the stage and the audience
phatic function -> to awaken interest, to acclimatize the audience to the atmosphere of the play

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analytical drama

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extreme form of integrated exposition - exposition continues throughout the entire play/text; gradual disclosure of past events that have led to the initial situation

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monologue

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characters speak alone, but in the presence of others

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soliloquy

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characters speak alone with no other character on stage; often used for the communnication of innermost feelings

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dialogue

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succession of remarks and counter-remarks between two or more characters

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teichoscopy

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Characters observe and report events that are happening off-stage

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aside

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“Beiseitesprechen” frequently not addressed to another character on stage but to the extratextual level, the reader or audience

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monological aside

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other characters on stage do not hear what is spoken
Character speaks to him or herself

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dialogical aside

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whispering on stage

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aside ad spectatores

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break the forth wall

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dramatic irony

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based on the discrepency between knowledge from the characters and the audience. The irony is that the audience can’t do anything with the knowledge

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discrepant awareness

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the characters/Characters-audience have different levels of information
Special form: dramatic irony

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congruent awareness

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the characters/Characters-audience have the same level of information

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theories of Character

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mimetic approaches: character is real with a psyche
structuralist approaches: characters are functional roles performed by characters. They are functions of the plot not “real” people or psychological entities

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dramatis personae

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all literary characters appearing in a play

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correspondence and contrast

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similarities and differences between characters (helpful to find out their function)

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Character constellation
the dynamic structure of the dramatis personae. relationships between characters throughout the play.
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Character configuration
focuses on character configuration on stage. how many characters are on stage, is one character part of most configurations and hence very importante or only marginal
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Character perspective
the individual more or less restricted view of "reality" of every character (level of knowledge, psychological dispositions, norms, values)
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perspective structure
entirety of character perspectives and their relationship to each other. Do they add up to one "world view" (closed) or are there different ones and hence a higher degree of insecurity as to who's right (open)
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type
a character who has few charcteristics or individual features (in fiction: flat character)
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individual
character with large number of characteristics (often developing in the course of the play) (in fiction: round character)
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figural characterization
information about a character is supplied primarily by speech, gestures and actions
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authorial characterization
Information about the character is derived from the structure of the entire play
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unity of time and place
no change in setting and time (no flashbacks, or flashforwards, no ellipses) -> in classic drama, one day is shown in one setting
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unity of action
closed action with beginning, middle and end (no beginning in medias res)
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closed temporal structure
time restricted to one day or a similarly homogenous amount of time
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open temporal structure
time is not restricted to one day
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fictional space
the stage and props represent some fictional or imaginary space that is only partially represented; characters may refer to places they have been
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word scenery
creates an imaginary scene and engages the audience to imagine what is only verbally represented (as opposed to props)
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semanticization of space
space becomes a bearer of meaning
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fictional time
duration spanned by the stage events
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performance time
duration of the individual performance
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performativity
A drama is made to be experienced on stage
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Communication
works different, there is no narrator
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Collectivity
of reception (audience) of production (many workser, actors etc.)
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Multimediality
Costumes, facial expressions, Light, Music, scenery
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monologue
one Character is talking but others are present
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Soliliquy
one Character is talking but no others are present
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Dialogue
two or more Characters are talking
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utterances
name: text name: text name: text
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stichomythia
very short utterances
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Aside: monological
other characters on stage do not hear the short comment made by one character
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Aside: dialogical
whispering on stage
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Aside ad spectatores
direct address of the audience which other characters cannot hear)
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teichoscopy
Character sees something off scene and expains it while is is happening
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messengers report
Character explains something that happened off stage at a different time
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Comedy
misscomunication but funny
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Tragedy
misscomunication but tragic and sad
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external communication system
Difference in level of Information between Characters and audience
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internal communication system
Difference in level of Information between Characters
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discrepant awareness
different amount of information
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congruent awareness
same amount of information
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dramatic Irony
The audience knows something that the Characters don't but they are not able to do something
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exposition
audience gets Background information isolated: seperat from story at the begonning integrated: happens during the story
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dramatic introduction
doesn't give Background information, is supposed to show the atmosphere of the play and should wake interest in the audience
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5 Acts
1. exposition 2. development of the Conflict 3. Climax 4. moment of delay 5. Catastrophy/denoument
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Climax: Anagnorisis
important information is revealed
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Climax: peripeteia
a sudden reversal in circumstances
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open form
you don't really know how everything ended
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closed form
there is a real ending
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theological Drama
there is a goal and everything that is happening is to reach the goal
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analytical Drama
something important happend before the start of the drama and the drama deals with it and its aftereffects

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