THTR 1020 Lecture : First Half Of Semester Lecture Notes
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Reading a play closet dramas: plays meant to be read, not acted. A play is an entire world to itself. A play is isolated in space and time a place with no accidents the stage world never obeys the same rules as our world. Nothing else is possible besides what is there. Its the only reason he doesn"t see the monster, shaped the symbolity of the story, its a symbol of joy, sadness, nostalgia, remembrance, separation. The symbol of love becomes a cursed object, love is something bad that causes us to hurt. The character list sucks bc we put faces to the names before we imagine them, don"t make assumptions the characters are defined by the world they live in. Does anything not fit? anachronisms (don"t fit into the time frame), writers can write a past costume to create parallelism with the past, Aristotle says theatre releases you from the emotions of the play (catharsis)
