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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

eShakespeare-Hamlet


SHOWS: 12th Night
Fall 2003 : filmplus.org/thrtheatre theory

Summary

200 Words Post (after reading each play):

Paragraph 1: Plot Summary -- Describe in one paragraph the storyline of the play (six or seven sentences).

Paragraph 2: Theme(s) (Meaning or premise) -- What is the playwright saying to us? What is the point of the story or plot? What comment is the writer making about society? Support your theme statement from an action, dialogue or scene from the play.

Paragraph 3: Form -- tragedy, comedy, melodrama, or tragicomedy? Why you believe it is a particular type of play by using examples from the play (refer to definitions in texts to justify your selections).

Paragraph 4: Conclusion -- Discuss the play's universality. Will it withstand time? 100, 1000 years? Why? Peronal Opinion (Summary).

Questions

Chekhov, new drama. Craft & Art. Chekhov

Notes

* The Poetics
Aristotle:

Structure:
Idea
Plot
Character

Texture:
Language
Music
Spectacle (Show)

123 Composition:
Exposition
Climax
Resolution

Genre: Comedy, Tragedy, Drama

Chronotope: Space + Time

M. Chekhov -- Acting One: Fundamentals

Homecoming

... from T_BLOG : subdirectories 1-5 are not ready! see anatoly.vtheatre.net/dramaturg

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Intro

From Chekhov to Beckett ... and After.
This is a new subdirectory; main is @ script.vtheatre.net

3 new subdirectories

I need to keep it in two main parts: craft and styles (periods).

Part Three: showcases -- like Chekhov or Three Sisters?

The Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. What's happened in three centuries after Shakespeare?

High Modernity: from Hamlet to Everyman?

Individual -- from religion to social or artist Christianity? Man is a universe... Character is a story!

Realism -- Why the NEW theatre was needed? New drama, new acting, directing.

Drama-Assignments Writing assignments: 200 words post after reading each play. Midterm (Outline, 1st Draft, Final), Final (and/or the Scene -- the same three stages or rewrites), tests.

[ analysis of Chekhov' stage directions at home, select your favorite character ]

PS

Read character analysis (monologues) in shows.vtheatre.net (3sisters)

NB

Godot

Chekhov
Next: 3-Sisters
Beckett

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