THEA 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Subplot, Dramatic Structure, Samuel Beckett
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Aristotle believes that this is what a perfect play should contain: plot. 2 or more opposing forces working for different goals. Everything that you need to know about the play before the play continues on. Everything that rises to the main conflict. Everything that the plot has been building up to. Ties up all the lose ends and ends the story. Episodic: a series of events that occur connected to a theme or character, can occur over many years. Non-linear: events told out of order. Subplot: secondary lines of actions that are entwined with the actual plot, character. A fictional person who performs the actions of the play. Audience wants a protagonist who is damaged. Antagonist: who or what opposes the central character: thought. Grammatical based on the sentence or paragraph. Today, its more likely to see plays written in prose. In greek times, lays were all about poems. Plays then in prose would be considered inartistic: music.
