Drama

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Drama

• Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies

Text Nünning, Ansgar and Vera Introduction to
the Study of English and American Literature.
Stuttgart Klett, 2004. 76-100.
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Literary Communication
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Communication Model Poetry
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Communication ModelDrama
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Drama Analysis

• primary and secondary text
• speech situation soliloquy, dialogue, aside
• action and character
• ? open vs. closed form of drama
• - Aristotles three unities
• - Freytag pyramid
• ? characters
• - character conception
• - techniques of characterization

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Elizabethan Theatres
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Johann de Witts sketch of the interior of the
Swan Theatre (1596)
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picture frame or proscenium stage
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apron or thrust stage
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arena stage
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Drama Analysis

• primary and secondary text
• speech situation
• soliloquy, dialogue, aside
• action and character
• ? open vs. closed form of drama
• - Aristotles three unities
• - Freytag pyramid
• ? characters
• - character conception
• - techniques of characterization

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Drama Analysis

• primary and secondary text
• speech situation
• soliloquy, dialogue, aside
• Dramatic action
• ? open vs. closed form of drama
• - Aristotles three unities
• - Freytag pyramid
• Characters
• - character conception
• - techniques of characterization

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• Aristotelian demands of unity and totality
• three unities
• The unity of action a play should have one main
  action that it follows.
• The unity of time a play should represent an
  action that takes approximately the same amount
  of time as the play.
• 3.The unity of place a play should cover a
  single physical space and should not attempt to
  compress geography, nor should the stage
  represent more than one place.
• These three unities are generally related to
  Aristotles Poetics, but the Poetics really only
  call for the unity of plot.

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Gustav Freytag Die Technik des Dramas (1863)
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Drama Analysis

• primary and secondary text
• speech situation
• soliloquy, dialogue, aside
• Dramatic action
• ? open vs. closed form of drama
• - Aristotles three unities
• - Freytag pyramid
• Characters
• - character conception
• - techniques of characterization

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Character conception

• static vs. dynamic characters
• flat vs. round characters
• personification type individual

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Character conception

• static vs. dynamic characters
• flat vs. round characters
• personification type individual

Techniques of Characterization

• figural vs. authorial
• implicit and explicit

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