ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Dithyramb, Sophocles, Fourth Wall
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Further links: beckett and the theatre of the absurd: http://www. cliffsnotes. com/literature/w/waiting-for-godot/critical- essays/samuel-beckett-and-the-theater-of-the-absurd. Some parts are very fragmented, but offered here as a study aid, not a primary learning source. [at skin, at clothes, etc. , at hand props, at furniture, at floor, at walls. : asides, soliloquis, fourth wall, diction and selective language, have students name conventions [oriental face painting, puppets] Conventions are systems of techniques whose meaning is agreed upon by audience and artist alike. They may also represent the rules by which the audience understands the play (this isn"t meaningful, that is, etc. Conventions set up internal logic: everything in a play makes sense within itself, nothing can be left out or added without altering the experience, the ending is usually a logical and direct conclusion. Whatever takes place must strike us as authentic. Must believe it while it happens and on its own terms. W. corrigan, the world of the theatre (2nd ed.
