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Genre

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a category of composition, characterized by form, style, or subject matter

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Main Genres

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Tragedy & Comedy

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Tragedy

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Genre in which the protagonist fails or dies, usually with a sad ending.

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Comedy

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Genre in which the protagonist wins/succeeds, usually with a happy ending.

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Types of Performances

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Musical, Opera, Dance, Puppetry, Pantomime, Mime

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Steps to Analyze a Play

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  1. Identify genre
  2. Find theme
  3. Analyze dramatic techniques
  4. Combine for final analysis
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Soliloquy

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Actor speaks their thoughts, alone on stage.

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Aside

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Character addresses the audience, revealing inner thoughts; other characters cannot hear them.

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Drama

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A piece of writing presented almost exclusively through dialog; uses script format.

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Act

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Major division of a play

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Scene

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Small divisions in an act; setting changes most of the time.

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Elements of a Production

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  1. script
  2. rehearsal
  3. performance
  4. audience
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Script

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A “blueprint” for a production, building on a central theme or artistic statement.

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Commedia dell’arte

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Renaissance era comedic improv using stock characters & pre-existing scenarios.

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Modern Improv Companies

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The Second City; The Groundlings

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Dialog-driven Theatre

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Script which leaves no room for improv; ex: Shakespeare

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process

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the steps taken to make a complete product for performance

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Audience

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the receivers of the “product” (the performance); without an audience there is no performance.

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Product

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the performance; must be presented to the receivers (the audience).

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Performance

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form of art using the body of the artist(s) to convey meaning.

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Parts of a Narrative

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Exposition, rising action, climax, denoument

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Exposition

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Introduces characters, setting, etc.

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Rising Action

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builds tension, presents roadblocks and character growth

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Climax

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The big battle or culmination of events

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Denoument

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what happens after, wrapping up lose ends

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Primitive Theatre

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Rituals; possible precursor to 1st performance.

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Chorus

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group of men & boys acting as performers and narrators

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Greek Theatre Masks

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Used to change characters, amplify voices, and represent muses.

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Greek Playwrights

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Sophocles, Aeschylus, & Euripides

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Mystery Plays

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Stories from the Bible

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Miracle Plays

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Stories about the saints.

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Morality Plays

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Allegorical plays meant to promote a godly life

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Everyman

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The hero of a morality play, representing mankind; overcomes evil through good deeds, reaching heaven.

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Renaissance

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A period of “rebirth” from 1400-1700, beginning in Italy.

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Renaissance Developments in Theatre

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Indoor theatre, arched stage, dropping a curtain between scenes, elaborate set design

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Renaissance Transitions

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From purely religious themes to secular entertainment

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Renaissance Implementations

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song, dance, music

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Moliere

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French playwright who satirized the powerful/important people of society.

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Christopher Marlowe

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English tragedian from Elizabethan time.

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Ben Jonson

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English comedian from Elizabethan time.

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Shakespeare

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prolific English playwright; wrote both tragedies and comedies.

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Romanticism

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Literary & artistic movement of the 1800s, focused on fighting injustice to preserve human rights.

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Melodrama

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Drama genre in which the hero always wins, good fights evil, and there’s lots of action & special effects.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Known for the Fauste.

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Realism

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Movement of the `1800s in rebuttal to Romanticism; developed with scientific & psychological discoveries. Had no happy endings, a reflection of the human condition.

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A Doll’s House

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Written by Henrik Ibsen; A woman leaves her family to find herself, controversial for suggesting women can’t find their purpose in (then) modern society.

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Eugene O’Neill

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America’s 1st playwright to achieve fame abroad; wrote Long Day’s Jouney into the Night.

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Long Day’s Journey Into the Night

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Play by Eugene O’Neill; semi-autobiographical depiction of a family’s struggle with addiction and loss.

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Arthur Miller

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Post-WWII playwright of The Crucible and Death of a Salesman.

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Tennesee Williams

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Post-WWII playwright of The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire.

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Theatre of the Absurd

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Drama movement based on the idea that existence is meaningless with no rhyme or reason for one’s actions.

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Characteristics of Theatre of the Absurd

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Illogical dialog, irrational actions, often ends in silence, not mainstream

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Minority Theatre

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Drama movement focused on minorities and their struggles.

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Lorraine Hansberry

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1st black female African American successful in US; wrote A Raisin in the Sun.

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August Wilson

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Author of the Pittsburgh Cycle, a 10 play exploration of the African American experience.

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