Playwriting Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Western audiences, to a great degree have been brought up watching Aristotelian story telling Correct Answer: True The inciting incident in a story happens after the crisis Correct Answer: false there were 24 chorus members in the tragedy of sophocles Correct Answer: false according to the aristotle good tragedies raise questions about the meaning of human kind's existence Correct Answer: true the new comedy of menander was severely critical of the athenian government's role in t...

Western audiences, to a great degree have been brought up watching Aristotelian story telling Correct Answer: True The inciting incident in a story happens after the crisis Correct Answer: false there were 24 chorus members in the tragedy of sophocles Correct Answer: false according to the aristotle good tragedies raise questions about the meaning of human kind's existence Correct Answer: true the new comedy of menander was severely critical of the athenian government's role in t...

Were the legal restrictions on women more or less severe in Shakespeare’s time than in subsequent decades? - ANSWER-The legal restrictions were less severe in Shakespeare's time than in subsequent decades. During the 1600s, there were alternative legal codes in place that were less restrictive than English common law. When common law triumphed, women were stripped of many rights they had held before and they lost any economic freedom they had before. During the anti-enclosure riots of , wh...

POETS & POETRY | 1600 | He began a famous poem, ""I celebrate myself, and sing myself"" Walt Whitman 19th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS | 800 | In 1893 this British man published his ""initial"" book, a ""text-book of biology""; many sci-fi novels followed H.G. Wells FRENCH LITERATURE | 2000 | A collection of about 90 tales, ""The Human Comedy"" by this author paints a vivid portrait of 19th c. France (Honoré de) Balzac CONSERVATIVE BOOKSHELF | 400 | Cartoonist Michael Ramirez...

ENGL2443 Final - SP18 THE Tempest Act 2 Scene 1 Gonzalo (just landed on island, positive VP contrasted with Antonio and Alonso) - ANS-Beseech you, sir, be merry. You have cause / (So have we all) of joy; for our escape / Is much beyond our loss. Our hint of woe / Is common: every day some sailor's wife, / The master of some merchant, and the merchant / Have just our theme of woe. But for the miracle -- / I mean our preservation -- few in millions / Can speak like us. Then Wisely, goo...

ENGL2443 Final - SP18 THE Tempest Act 2 Scene 1 Gonzalo (just landed on island, positive VP contrasted with Antonio and Alonso) - ANS-Beseech you, sir, be merry. You have cause / (So have we all) of joy; for our escape / Is much beyond our loss. Our hint of woe / Is common: every day some sailor's wife, / The master of some merchant, and the merchant / Have just our theme of woe. But for the miracle -- / I mean our preservation -- few in millions / Can speak like us. Then Wisely, goo...

Important definitions, terms, people, dates for theater 100N lectures. Notes from slides. Important concepts and exam content.

EXTREMELY thorough and informative notes from class lectures, quizzes, and review sessions for the final exam for Theater 102: Intro to Theater at Binghamton University. Important information is highlighted and bold. 36 pages of notes; search for key words, or read through review session notes. Notes on quizzes and their relevance to the final are also included in the document. You can skip class! I'm very proud of these notes and have highlighted specifics that were imperative for the final exa...

Notes on Chapter 3 of Hatcher's book. It covers Hatcher's definition of 'reality' within a story; the merging of space, time and causality.