drama terms: william shakespeare
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DRAMA TERMSRomeo and Juliet
By Erin Salona
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DEFINITION
A play that ends happily
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TERM
Comedy
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DEFINITION
A play that ends unhappily
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TERM
Tragedy
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DEFINITION
A dramatic work based on an actual historical event or person– a combination of fiction and nonfiction
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TERM
History
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DEFINITION
The final revelation or outcome of a tragedy
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TERM
Catastrophe
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DEFINITION
The main character in a Shakespearean tragedy.
Is nobly born and has great influence in his or her own society.
Has one of more serious character flaws which lead to his downfall.
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TERM
Tragic Hero
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DEFINITION
Subdivision of a play
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Act
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DEFINITION
Further subdivision of an ACT
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TERM
Scene
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DEFINITION
A person whose function it is to communicate words and emotions to an audience; he or she assumes the personality of the character
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TERM
Actor
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DEFINITION
Those who view the play and should be responsive to the action and the feeling or mood portrayed as the actors lead them into the play
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Audience
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DEFINITION
The hero or leading character with whom the audience sympathizes
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TERM
Protagonist
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DEFINITION
The character who opposes or competes with the protagonist
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TERM
Antagonist
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DEFINITION
A character whose qualities contrast with those of another character. A writer might use a foil to emphasize or de-emphasize another character’s traits.
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Foil The businessman’s foil; makes him look more attractive in comparison
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DEFINITION
All of the stage furnishings, objects, etc.
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TERM
Props
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DEFINITION
A character’s remark, either to the audience or to another character that others on stage are not supposed to hear. Its purpose is to reveal the character’s private thoughts.
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Aside
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DEFINITION
A single person speaking alone– with or without an audience.
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TERM
Monologue
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DEFINITION
A speech that a character gives when he or she is alone on stage. Its purpose is to let the audience know what the character is thinking. This is a type of monologue.
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TERM
Soliloquy
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DEFINITION
A joke that comes from a play on words.
Examples: A prisoner's favorite punctuation mark is the period. It marks the end of his sentence.
When William joined the army he disliked the phrase 'fire at will'.
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MORE EXAMPLES There was a sign on the lawn at a drug
re-hab center that said 'Keep off the Grass'.
A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is two-tired.
I decided that becoming a vegetarian was a missed steak.
Two peanuts were walking in a tough neighborhood and one of them was a-salted.
A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.
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TERM
Pun
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DEFINITION
Left of the stage from the actor’s point of view.
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Stage Left
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DEFINITION
Right of the stage from the actor’s point of view.
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TERM
Stage Right
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DEFINITION
Area of the stage closest to the footlights and audience
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Downstage
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DEFINITION
Area of the stage farthest away from the footlights and the audience
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TERM
Upstage