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*** Fall 2005: Bedford Intro to Drama (textbook) -- THR215 Dramatic Literature *
archives : Fall 2003: Modern Drama: Selected Plays from 1879 to the Present Walter Levy, Pace University ISBN: 0-13-226721-7 Prentice Hall Paper; 985 pp Published: 10/21/1998 NEW : 2008 : CHEKHOV PAGES
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THR413 Playscript Analysis'06 (Fall)
[ vTheatre: postmodern project * Theatre UAF ]
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Dramatic Literature'05 * Fall 2005 THR215 (see new script.vtheatre.net/215 subdirectory)
Three (Five) Parts: Craft, Art, Theory, Plays, Writing
Drama Analysis for Theatre Majors
[ I will try to move most of the Craft Pages (composition, exposition and etc.) to script.vtheatre.net/213 ]
First, read vtheatre.net/200 -- core aesthetics!
Instructions for cyber-students:
1. When subscribe, must introduce yourself!
2. Read the Dramlit Forum's archives.
3. Read the textbook.
4. Read the webpages.
5. Write:
Do it on time!
Anatoly Antohin
* 200 words after each play
* Responses to your classmates' posts
* scenes
"ShowCases" -- selected playwrights! (The Big Four: Sophocles + Shakespeare + Chekhov + Beckett)* script.vtheatre.net/215 THR215 Dramatic Literature -- Course Objective: To gain knowledge of the basic elements and tools a playwright uses to create a work of art and to develop awareness and appreciation of the history and ideas in the history of drama.Three major writers: Sophocles (Oedipus) + Shakespeare (Hamlet & The Taming of the Shrew) + Chekhov (3 Sisters)
Fall 2005 special -- Chekhov's One-Act Farces
Useful Questions to Ask Yourself about a Script Under Review (basic):
1. Is there anything special about the title? Does it focus on a character, the milieu, or a theme? Is it taken from a quotation or is an allusion? Does it contain a point of view or suggest a mood?
2. Make a note of unrealistic elements and consider their meaning. Does it include documentary material and, if so, to what effect?
3. Is there a main theme? Consider the tempo of the various sections?
4. How many acts and scenes are there? What motivates the divisions of the play and how are they marked (curtains, blackouts, etc.)?
5. What are the retrospective elements of the play and are they explicit or implicit?
6. Is there secondary action and what is its relationship with the main action?
7. Consider the characters entrances and exits and how they are motivated?
8. Is there any difference between playing time (the time it takes to perform the play) and illusory time (the time the action is supposed to take)? What is the relationship between the two, if any?
9. Where is the play enacted? Is the playwright vague or exact about the environment? Is this important?
10. How does the playwright economize with the number of roles? Could any be omitted or doubled? What function do the various secondary characters have?
11. Who is the protagonist? The antagonist?
12. What are the relationships among the characters and how do they change?
13. Is the play in verse, prose, or a mixture?
14. Is the play a translation? Can you compare it to the original? With other translations? Are there significant differences?
15. Is the playwright making significant points of interpretation with the use of punctuation? With breaks and overlaps? With silence?
* script.vtheatre.net/413 -- THR413 Playscript Analysis -- Investigation of the structure of playscripts designed to develop skills in analysis and interpretation for performance. (Prerequisites: junior standing.) Credits: 3 (see Theatre UAF University of Alaska Fairbanks) Must be subscribed to groups.yahoo.com/group/dramlit! All communications are there -- do not email me! Anatoly
Hamlet (1996)
The Taming of the Shrew (Jefferelli)
Romeo & Juliet ()
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Context * Plot Overview * Characters * Character Analysis * Themes * Scenes * Quotations * Key Facts * Study Questions * Quiz * Further Reading * Notes *
The page above are not developed yet.
Use
bedfordstmartins.com/jacobus
Read the "support pages" -- appendix, biblio, list, links and etc.
Read the "instruction pages" in classes directory: students, online, notes, instructors and etc.
Use the Glossaries, use terms and words introduced!
All other classes are hyperlinked -- acting, directing, film: must do your own research!
Do the homework!
Ask each other!
After 2008 : everything is for cyber-students! iPod?
Well, you are on your own... You have to teach yourself. The question is do you know how to learn?
If you do, you are set for life!
If not, you have to study it -- how to learn on your own...
It could take a life to do it...
Or more.
About The Book * Preface * Overview * Table of Contents * About the Author * What's New * Feature Summary * Supplements * PageOut * Credits *