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

SHOWS: 12th Night
(c)2004

Summary

Chekhov

Questions

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

From Chekhov

Part One

Stanislavsky: There are no small roles, only small actors.

Craft

THR413 starts where THR215 DramLit stops. Yes, we have to talk more about the Grammar of Drama, but overall emphasis is on Art & ARTISTS (Part 2 and 3); The names are in main directory. Yes, we start with Shakespeare again (Hamlet) to get everybody on the same page, but my intentions are to get to Chekhov (the end of modernity) and travel through the decades (styles) of the 20th century.

The last (next) part is Theory (or Philosophy)....

Part I. Craft

Part II. Art

Part III. Theory

[ "200words" after reading each new play posted on Dramlit List! On Time! ]

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. Paper must be "personal" -- your take, opinion, vision.

Must have contemporary ground -- "today" -- why it is important for us in 2003.