Week 15
1. Proscenium stage:
A proscenium is the area of a theatre surrounding the stage opening. A proscenium arch is the arch over this area.
2. Amphitheatre:
An amphitheatre or amphitheater is an open-air venue used for entertainment, performances, and sports.
3. Playwright:
A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. These works may be written specifically to be performed by actors, or they may be closet dramas - simple literary works - written using dramatic forms, but not meant for performance.
4. The five parts of plot:
5. Ancient Greek Theatre Diagram:
6. Dionysus:
Dionysus is the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness, fertility, theatre and religious ecstasy in Greek mythology.
7. Arena Stage:
Arena Stage is a not-for-profit regional theater based in Southwest Washington, D.C. It was a pioneer in 1950 of the Regional Theater Movement.
8. Setting:
In works of narrative (especially fictional), the literary element setting includes the historical moment in time and geographic location in which a story takes place, and helps initiate the main backdrop and mood for a story.
9. Closet drama:
A closet drama is a play that is not intended to be performed onstage, but read by a solitary reader or, sometimes, out loud in a small group.
10. Samson Agonistes:
Samson Agonistes is a tragic closet drama by John Milton. It is generally thought that Samson Agonistes was begun around the same time as Paradise Regained but was completed after the larger work, possibly very close to the date of publishing, but there is no agreement on this.
11. Delilah:
Delilah is a character in the Hebrew bible Book of Judges, where she is the "woman in the valley of Sorek" whom Samson loved, and who was his downfall.
12. :
unity of action: a play should have one action that it follows, with minimal subplots.
unity of: the action in a play should occur over a period of no more than 24 hours.
unity of place: a play should exist in a single physical space and should not attempt to compress geography, nor should the stage represent more than one place.
13. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, a friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective). It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
14. Dénouement:
The dénouement comprises events from the end of the falling action to the actual ending scene of the drama or narrative.
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