THTR 1020 : Final Exam Study Guide
Document Summary
Artistic value of play= capacity to be imagined and re-imagined on stage. Storytelling and cultural tradition: western tradition: tells story though a progression of causally related events transpiring in linear time and enacted in three-dimensional space. Butterfly: understanding the playwright uses of plot to emphasize particular themes provides audiences with a tool for analyzing a play. The poetics (famous essay on dramatic criticism) Ancient greece- literally god figure lowered to end play. Today- any dramatic device used to bring the play to a final resolution. Moliere turned king louis xiv into got at end of tartuffe: the well-made play, 19th century frenchmen augustin-eugene scribe and victorien. Sardou wrote for boulevard theatre: well-made play-formula for producing one successful script after another. Foreshadowing- hints about events to come that set the audience up. Inciting incident-an event that sets the action in motion. Cliffhanger-anything that keeps the audience guessing about the outcome during a break in the playing of action.
