theatre exam 2 2
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- soliloquy
- character speaking inner thoughts
- aside
- breaking the 4th wall. talking to audience and coming right back into character
- dialogue
- conver between 2 people
- flashback
- show onstage before the plot from the past
- plot
- happens on stage
- story
- details, you may not see on stage
- dramatic time
- time represented on stage
- well made play
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cause and effect
1 direction
if there is a ? in the beginning the ans. will be at the end
most satisfied bc of no confusion - 3 unities
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time
place
action - climatic structure
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limited # of characters
1 day (plot)
1 location
intense-linear
popular in ancient greece - episodic structure
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extensive
cause to effect
does not follow well made play
takes place in episodes
many characters
many locations
convers many years - sub plot
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happens in episodic from episodes
tells plot
shakespeare - sub text
- there has to be a reason for the statment
- non-sequitor
- does not follow structure
- tableau
- like someone took a pic
- aristotle elements of drama
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plot
characters on stage
idea or thought-reason for play
dialogue-share ideas
melody-flow, rhythm, or language
spectacle-think you see - aristolian plot construction
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inciting argument-what's the crisis?
rising actions-conflict resolution
turing point-a piece of info that changes the direction
climax- when ? is answered
denouement-falling off unraviling, where the audience comes back down to earth and leaves - golden age of greece
- 5 bce
- joseph campbell
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basic concerns with ritual
mythology
power, pleasure, duty - satyr
- short comedic pieces that make fun of tragedy
- thepis
- 1st actor stepped outside of chorus
- aeschylus
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playwright produced 2nd actor
evolution of theatre
wrote legends of muths gods and religions - sophocles
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introduced 3 actors
focus: brought humanity when he wrote not just gods, human response - euripides
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conflict between good and evil
human base
numan nature
revenge weakness - who wrote death of a salesmen
- authur miller
- low tragedy
- common everyday people
- high tragedy
- royalty prestige
- catharis
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purging
emotional release - melodrama
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you know whose good and evil
good triump bad defeat - domestic drama
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everyday people
hope at end
forward movemnt - romanticism
- expresses human beings the ideal state is they are in in natural state
- realism
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not good ending
19th century - ibsen
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father of realism
norwegien idealist - naturalisn
- everything happens on stage no plots
- symbolism
- symbols speak beyond reality
- expressionalism
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you see world of play through eyes of central character
distorded dramatic grotesque