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• Plot

  • contains the story that the play narrate
• Plot

  • Events should be clear to the audience and have a logical connection with each other
• Characters

  • Ones that move the action of the play forward
• Characters

  • each of the should have their own distinct
• Character's distinct

  • Age
  • Personality
  • Appearance
  • Belief
  • Socio-Economic background
  • Language
• Theme/Thought

  • Central idea of the play
• Theme/Thought

  • It contains the message the play gives to the audience
• Theme/Thought

  • It is sometimes clearly stated in the title, through dialogue or action, or can be inferred after watching and analyzing the play.
• Language/Diction

  • Word choices made by the playwright and how the actors enunciate the language.
• Language/Diction

  • Moves the plot along, provide expo, and define the distinct characters
• Music/Rhythm

  • Encompasses the rhythm of dialogue and speeches in a play.
• Music/Rhythm

  • Delivers music, rhythm, and melody in its own manner
• Music/Rhythm

  • Sound effects, the actor's voices, songs and instrumental music plays as underscore in a play
• Music/Rhythm

  • in musicals, used to push the plot forward and move the story to higher level of intensity
• Music/Rhythm

  • Character's wants and desires can be strengthened
• Spectacle

  • aspects of scenery, costumes, and special effects
• Spectacle

  • visual elements
• Theatre Critique

  • A paper that contains formal written of discussions of a performance of a play or musical
• Literary Criticism

  • Process of analyzing a piece
• Formalistic

  • symbols, images, and structure and how one part of the work relate to other parts and to the whole
• Philosophical

  • themes, vies of the world, moral statements, and author's philosophy
• Biographical

  • Connection between the piece and the author's personal experience
• Historical

  • Connection of the work to the historical period
• Historical

  • Literary historians attempt to connect the historical background of the work to specific aspects of the work
• Psychological

  • Psychology of the characters
• Psychological

  • How the characters think
• Sociological

  • Man's relationship with others in society, politics, religion, and business
• Archetypal

  • connections to other literatur, mythological allusions, symbols, characters, themes
• Feminist

  • examines images of women and concept of feminine
• feminist

  • uses the psychological, archetypal, and sociological approaches
• feminist

  • often focuses on female characters who have been neglected in previous criticisms
• Nascent Critiques

  • script analysis often stars with the identifying of the given circumstances
• Nascent Critiques

  • as you read the script, you will identify the time, period, place, locale, mood, theme
• Intermediate Critiques

  • dialogue is the primary medium of drama
• Intermediate Critiques

  • think about in terms of text, context, subtext
• Text

  • actual words written and spoken
• Context

  • situation surrounding the characters
• Subtext

  • underlaying meaning of what the characters say
• Advanced Critiques

  • all drama stems forms conflict arising from characters pursuing what they want despite obstacles
• Advanced Critiques

  • as your read the script, you will identify objective, super-objectives, obstacles , tactic, and beat change