terminology

• Proxemics


  linguistic term to indicate use of space
• Five Act Structure


  Convention in Shakespeare's period
• Apron


  The part of the proscenium stage that sticks out into the audience in front of the proscenium arch
• Aside


  Words spoken to the audience but not heard by other characters
• Box set


  A set built to represent the three walls of a room, the absent fourth wall on the proscenium line allows the audience to witness a domestic scene.
• Complication


  The intensification of conflict in a play
• Denouement


  The final outcome of the main complication in a play (In Othello, Emilia reveals to Othello that Desdemona was actually faithful)
• Deus Ex Machina


  When an external source resolves the entanglements of a play
• Flat characters


  Simple minor characters who do not change in the course of the play
• Point of attack


  When the playwright chooses to dramatise the action
• Proscenium Arch


  Frames stage action, used during the Renaissance.
• Round character


  A nuanced character who undergoes development
• Stock character


  A recognisable stereotype found in many plays