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    Elements of Drama

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    ELEMENTS OF DRAMA “All the World’s a stage…” William Shakespeare DRAMA  Comes from the Greek word ‘dran’  Means ‘To act’ or ‘To do’  The doing/acting makes drama DRAMA…  …is a story told in front of an audience. TERMS PLAYWRIGHT- the author of the play  PLOT- action of the play  SETTING- time and place  ACTS- Divisions within a play (much like chapters in a novel)  SCENES- smaller parts of an act.  ASIDE- lines that are spoken by a character directly to the audience.  DRAMATIC

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    medieval drama

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    Medieval Drama Jugglers‚ folk- plays‚ pageants: The beginning of the Middle Ages started by the fall of the Roman Empire. The corrupt Roman drama had come to an end‚ and the actors became some disreputable jugglers and inferior minstrels who wandered all over the country. The performances of these social outcasts were crude and immoral. However‚ they continued for centuries‚ because they were the only source for dramatic spectacle. Other sources of amusement too can be found in the country

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    How does Shakespeare create Tension in act1 scene 1? In King Lear‚ Act I establishes the nature of the conflict between Cordelia and Lear‚ among Goneril and Regan and Lear‚ and between Gloucester and Edgar. This first act also establishes the twofold nature of Goneril‚ Regan‚ and Edmund‚ while demonstrating that Cordelia and Edgar are good characters. The remainder of the play’s central characters also make an appearance in this act. At the start of the play Lear intends to divide his kingdom

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    Conventions of Drama

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    Through the centuries‚ the conventions of drama have been altered in many different ways. These conventions are the setting‚ plot‚ characters and staging. The main factor which has been a dominant force during the changes of conventions has been the society. The society present during the time in which a play was written had a direct influence on the plot and characters. This is because drama is defined as a representation of life. Four plays which have been selected from Greek‚ Elizabethan‚

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    Bird By Bird Summary

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    Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott was a very enlightening reading experience. You can see within the first page of reading that the author has been influenced by writing at an early age. It made her seem very credible and gave more influence on her words about writing. I like that at some points she goes past the surface of just talking about why she liked writing‚ but also what her family was like and how her childhood affected her. Her humor helped to make this

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    Bird By Bird Analysis

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    As illustrated by Anne Lamott‚ author of Bird by Bird‚ first drafts are not meant to be perfect‚ but merely to begin the writing process and generate ideas that can later be perfected. Lamott attempts to eliminate the common perceptions of the writing process‚ emphasizing the need for accepting flaws of an initial draft. Written by almost all good writers‚ sloppy first drafts are a way to begin the long writing process‚ while still allowing mistakes along the way. In order to make a piece of writing

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    Drama Essay

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    survival skills. In many cases‚ some never return leaving us to contemplate the worst. Matt Cameron explores this using grotesque fairy tale motifs as well as drawing from real-life newspaper headlines. In Scene 8 we are introduced to the character Dawn. This scene explores the complexity of the baby-sitter as a character. Dawn is an opposite character relating to Ray and Sylvie‚ just as they have lost their daughter‚ Dawn has lost her parents. This meeting between Ray and Dawn also

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    the crucible

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    Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” is a play that explores the unfortunate events that the small town of Salem‚ Massachusetts undergoes. The play contains numerous forms of belonging from numerous characters. The church demands its members to obey its commands signifying they belong‚ and those who rebel against the church‚ such as John Proctor‚ who refuses to attend Sabbath are alienated and suffer persecution as a consequence. The churches commands displays how belonging can be enforced by a higher

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    Birds Essay

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    producers add more drama and conflict tothe plot to make it more appealing to their target of viewers‚ this does not mean that they cannot stick to the core theme of the story. Although Maurier’s “The Birds” and Hitchcock’s The Birds have similar plot structures‚ the short story version is more entertaining because of lack of romance‚ more concise beginning‚ and ambiguous ending. There is a gathering of external plot points added to The Birds film. For starters‚ The Birds is more of a romance

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    Drama Essay

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    the basis for the plot. Trifles is a murder mystery‚ the play takes place in the kitchen instead of at the crime scene of the bedroom. Within the opening section of the play‚ the main conflict appears to revolve around a search for the murderer‚ whether such a person who is John Wright’s wife or some other individual. The scene consists of male figures that treat the kitchen as the scene of the crime and not a home. Mrs. Hale shows herself to be the more outspoken of the two women when protesting against

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