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Unit 3: Playwriting, Playwatching & playgoing STUDY OF THEATRE DRAMATIC LITERATURE literary conventions staging conventions PERFORMANCE stagecraft conditions of performance Intrinsic elements of drama TYPE OF TEXT USED PLOT – STORY – ACTION STRUCTURE introduction rising action climax falling action denouement or catastrophe CHARACTERS Flat/round dynamic/static stock characters CONTENT, THEMES SPACE AND TIME ATMOSPHERE, TONE GENRE, MODE, INTERTEXTUALITY LANGUAGE, STYLE, VERSE FIGURES OF SPEECH STAGE CONVENTIONS LITERARY/THEATRICAL CONTEXT BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SOURCES AND INFLUENCES CONDITIONS OF PERFORMANCE HISTORICAL CONTEXT SOCIOPOLITICAL ISSUES GENDER ISSUES IDEOLOGIES AUDIENCES
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THEATRE
MEDIEVAL THEATRE (Core features) RENAISSANCE ELIZABETHAN/JACOBEAN DRAMA Tudor: blooming theatrical culture Humanism – classic culture – playhouses AUTHORS WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE – Works, main features and innovation The Tempest (1611) VICTORIAN DRAMA Genres (plays, pantomime, burlesque, farce, light opera) Playwrights: OSCAR WILDE – COMEDY OF MANNERS The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) WIT Ironic critique of Victorian values George Bernard Shaw Early 20th Century: REALISM 1930s: innovation T. S. Eliot, Christopher Isherwood, Sean O’Casey POSTWAR DRAMA: Main Features 1/“AngryYoung Men:” John Osborne Look Back in Anger (1956) 2/ Theatre of the Absurd: Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1955) Harold Pinter, The Birthday Party (1958)
