Chapter 2 Flashcards
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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
- tragedy
- comedy
- history
- melodrama
- 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
14
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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
16
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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
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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
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plot vs story
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- plot: how story is told
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Character
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- 2nd most important
- portrays the characters
- human figures in play
- given human characteriscits: personified animals
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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
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theatrical conventions
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- aside
- light changes/actor exits and entrances
- freeze
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Horizontal axis
- time linear
| - happens before play, play itself, post play
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Preplay
- 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
- exposition: information
- conflict
- climax
- denoument
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exposition
- information
- who, where, what, when from characters
- era: who, where when
- dialogue, naturally sharing
- programs
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conflict
- drama
- good play - no idea how work things out
- conflict builds- create tension until climax
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climax
- sexual/peak conflict/tension
| - quickly resolve
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denoument
- resolution/resolvue
| - quick resolution; ending
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post play
- applause, curtain call, celebration and reviews
- light curtains come back up
- actors bow
- applause: performers and audience
- curtain call
- celebration and reviews
