※ a group of characters perform on the stage before the audience.
※ a whole world is a stage
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climax=conflict resolution = slove the problem
※fictional prose→Roman Fever , A Rose for Emily
※dramatist 戲劇家
playwright 戲劇家
player 演員
※thrust stage
A thrust has the benefit of greater intimacy between the audience and performers than a proscenium, while retaining the utility of a backstage area.
proscenium stage
Since the Italian Renaissance, the most common stage used in the West has been the proscenium stage which may also be referred to as a picture frame stage.
amphitheater
arena stage (Theatre-in-the-round)
It first opened on May 16, 1940 with a production of Spring Dance, a comedy by playwright Philip Barry.
Greek Theatre
※ Dionysus
※ dramatic irony →Oedipus the King
The classical unities, Aristotelian unities, or three unities are rules for drama derived from a passage in Aristotle's Poetics.
unity of time
unity of place
unity of action
A story which begins in medias res opens in the midst of action
※three Greek tragedian
Aeschylus →Agamemnon
Sophocles→Oedipus the King
Euripides→Medea
※Arthur Miller was a prolific American playwright, essayist, and prominent figure in twentieth-century American theatre.
※ motif > theme > subject
examples of motif:
love and lost
dream and advanture
life and death
※ I'd been there before.
※Mark Twain was an American author and humorist.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River.
"I am rotten glad of it."
※Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English
Milton's poetry and prose reflect deep personal convictions, a passion for freedom and self-determination, and the urgent issues and political turbulence of his day.
※ Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse
※Samson Agonistes is a tragic closet drama by John Milton. It appeared with the publication of Milton's Paradise Regain'd in 1671
※Closet drama
A closet drama is a play that is not intended to be performed onstage, but read by a solitary reader or, sometimes, out loud in a small group.
※ Delilah is a character in the Hebrew bible Book of Judges, where she is the "woman in the valley of Sorek" whom Samson loved, and who was his downfall.
Her figure, one of several dangerous temptresses in the Hebrew Bible
seven locks of hair
※ Goldilocks and the Three Bears
The original tale has three bachelor bears living in a house in the forest, and a dirty old woman as the story's antagonist.
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