THTR 1020 : Midterm Study Guide
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Every tragedy, therefore, must have six parts, which parts determine its quality namely, plot, Characters, diction, thought, spectacle, melody. (translation by s: butcher) Purpose of theatre: shakespeare, hamlet quote: theatre is a mirror reflection , felner: also a mirror. Agosto boal: being able to invent life instead of just being carried away by it, theatre. Conventions: vary by medium (film, tv, print, e-world, common language or syntax , assumed practices, accepted through repetition. Character: one of the things that gives meaning to our experience of theatre is the way that characters are coded. , characters come to represent/connote certain values/qualities (ideologies) Realism, brecht, and political theatre 12/10/2013 3:15:00 am. Epic theatre: new form circa 1940, realism"s spectator vs. epic theatre"s spectator. V-effect (verfremdungs: distancing, defamiliarizing, estrangement , takes something seemingly natural and resituating it as strinking. Demanding explanation, to see again that what which has disappeared b/c of its commonality: not alienation, but defamiliarization.
