So, how are you feeling about Shakespeare??

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So, how are you feeling about Shakespeare??

• Questions? Comments?
• Why are we doing this?!?!?
• Why, it is on the EOC of course!
• Elements of drama are a standard!
• We will learn them now and then practice
  identifying them while we read A Midsummer
  Nights Dream

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Elements of Drama
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Diagram of a Stage
Upstage
Stage Right
Stage Left
Center Stage
Downstage
Pit
Audience
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Stage Directions

• Define movements on the stage
• Define how a line should be delivered
• Ex (The dancers enter stage right.)
• Ex (Laughing wickedly)
• Stage directions are typically written in italics

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Dialogue

• A conversation between characters in a literary
  work.
• The speech of the actors in the play

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Function of Dialogue

• Dialogue brings characters to life by revealing
  their personalities and by showing what they are
  thinking and feeling as they react to other
  characters.

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Monologue

• A long speech spoken by an actor

http//www.youtube.com/watch?v27D4k3dCXPgfeature
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Soliloquies

• A speech by an actor who believes he/she is
  alone.
• Thinking aloud
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vRzuEKkPVeBQfeature
  related

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Function of Soliloquies

• A soliloquy typically reveals the private
  thoughts and emotions of the character.

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Asides

• In a play, a comment made by a character, but is
  not heard by the other characters onstage.
• Essentially, the comment is given to the audience

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vsNa8QyAl2YE

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Function of Asides

• Asides are frequently used to provide information
  to the audience and to reveal the private
  thoughts of characters.