T D 301 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: The Sequence
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Fundamental elements of structure: at the center of the drama are its characters and the stories they tell through their actions. Thought is the hardest to separate from them: form (the arrangement of character, plot, language, music, and spectacle) is what creates meaning, character, = the people in a play. In realistic plays, causality is extremely important to plot structure (time/logic) whereas other plays have more freedom to jump around: language, = the dialogue of a play written from the multiple points of view of the characters. Everyone with own speech patterns, often very poetic, even if very subtly. Often very rhythmic (repetition: music, aristotle ->musical accompaniments for the choruses and the chorus members themselves (chanted during tragedies, almost all form of theatre use music. Allow the audience to experience a shift in consciousness. Time becomes suspended, audience has time to think: asia not uncommon to spend all day/all night in a theatre, or several days at a time.
