[THEA 110] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (45 pages long!)
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Argument, struggle, persuasion, threats, passion, sound, color, dance, etc. This lets us judge our own struggles. This usually the time between lunch and dinner or dinner and bed-time. One act plays and ten minute plays. Typically a serious play (may have humor. Lead character(s) suffer a decline of fortune. This is how we learn (pity or terror) Shakespeare: hamlet romeo and juliet, macbeth, othello. Lead character(s) usually overreach and are shown up in the short-run. The difference is that in the end happy. Shakespeare: twelfth night, midsummer night"s dream, the tempest. Shakespeare: henry v, henry vlll, richard lll. May be an occupation for some and vocation for others. Can also be building (but usually spelled theatre. Can study history, era of play, edit text, prepare study materials for artists, etc. Takes all kinds of artists coming together to create one piece of art. Everything that happens on stage shows us all we need to know.