THEATRE 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Fourth Wall
7 Apr 2016
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Theater, then, is a dramatic action, a pretense performed for an audience. (art of the now 7). The american playwright thornton wilder explains it like this: theatre takes place in a perpetual pretense novels are written in the past tense. On the stage it is always now. " (art of. 3 basic areas: visual arts, literary arts, performing arts. We must make the assumption that in the world of the play there is no accidents. Nothing occurs by chance" in that case nothing in the play is without significance. -elinor fuchs. Inciting incident- the point after exposition that leads to the rising action. Climatic plot- this happens later in the story. Protagonist- the character whose will drives the story. 3 types of conflict: physical- war, psychological- internal, metaphorical- beyond the character"s control. Denouement/resolution- the final resolution of the intricacies of a plot, as of a drama or novel. Theater is a palace of thought. kwame kwei-armah (1967- )
