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Question 1

William Shakespear

Answer 1

1564-1616

Question 2

Text

Answer 2

• written to be performed
• primary and secondary text

Question 3

performance

Answer 3

• collective natur of production an reception
• adresses different senses
• multimedial form of representation (look at semiotics
  of theatre for more)
• use of (non) verbal sign system
• interaction between actors and audience
  -transient event
  -variation in production

Question 4

literary studies

Answer 4

focus on analysis and interpretation of the written text

Question 5

theatre studies

Answer 5

focus on analysis and interpretation of theatre work

Question 6

individual stage form influences

Answer 6

• audiences experience of production
• distance between actors and audience
• acting style

Question 7

renaissance stage : public theatres

Answer 7

largly empty, few props and little to no scenery

Question 8

Romeo and Juliet

Answer 8

• Elizabethian World picture (Great Chain of Being)
• sonett is equally split, Juliet is not silent
• Romeo is the purseur
• attainability
• Juliet teases Romeo (kiss by the book)
  -=> commentary on patrachian tradition
  ->R and J are equal
  contrast: Rosaline is worshipped from afar but does not appear on stage (seen as ridiculous)

Question 9

Genres

Answer 9

• Tragedy
• Comedy
• Comedy of manners
• Sentimental comedy
• Melodrama

Question 10

Analysis of dialogue

Answer 10

• length of individual utterances
• distribution among characters
• frequency with wich the speaker changes
• linear succession of individual utterances vs interruption
• logical interrealtion between individual utterances

Question 11

the tragic hero

Answer 11

• great man, neither too virtuous or too wicked
• undergoes a change of misfortune because of some mistake (hamartia)

Question 12

the plot includes

Answer 12

suffering (pathos)
reversal (peripeteia)
recognition (anagnorisis)

Question 13

a character is

Answer 13

fictive and not a real person
a deliberate construct
set of information by which it is determined is finite and closed

Question 14

Character perspective

Answer 14

restricted view of the dramatic world of character
determined by characters knowledge, psychological disposition and ideological persuasions

Question 15

Perspective structure

Answer 15

entirety of character perspectives and their realtionship to each other

Question 16

action and character

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• they are interdependent
• action arises from dialogue an drealtion betweeen the characters
• course of action influences the characters knowledge, abilities and needs

Question 17

action

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• change of perpetuatuon of a situation brought about by the characters
  . closed forms: entirely self contained
• open forms: not a typical patternd an often without definite conclusion

Question 18

spatial structure

Answer 18

sematicization of space := space is bearer of meaning
- where does character belong
- movement between different locations
relationship betweeen single locations
- relationship between on and off stage

Question 19

temporal structure

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performance time vs. ficitonal time
chronologiacal or achronic representation

Question 20

forms of tragedy

Answer 20

de casibus tragedy
revenge tragedy
domestic tragedy