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April 28

April 28. Turn in Writing Assignment Discuss The Theater of Shakespeare ( ch. 34) and Modern Theater ( ch. 35) View Othello and discuss Homework Read Othello Act V. Choose a play to read in chapter 36 and read it by May 3 rd . Reminder Final Exam May 10 th.

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April 28

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  1. April 28 • Turn in Writing Assignment • Discuss The Theater of Shakespeare (ch. 34) and Modern Theater (ch. 35) • View Othello and discuss • Homework • Read Othello Act V. • Choose a play to read in chapter 36 and read it by May 3rd. • Reminder • Final Exam May 10th

  2. The Theater of Shakespeare • Marked by strong characterization, heightened & intense language, crowded plots • Technical resources • Daylight • Simple scenery • Playgoers had to imagine • Playwrights had to use vivid language • Costumes • Building • Round/octagonal • Roof • Back exits and hiding places • The Globe • Not in the city of London but on the south bank of the Thames River because plays had been banished in 1574 for being blamed for “corruptions of the youth…” • Playwright • Had to please whole audience • Wide range of matter and tone • Passages of subtle poetry, deep philosophy, coarse language, sensational violence, quiet psychological conflict • Wrote parts into plays to take advantage of specific skills or to avoid straining resources • Company • 30 plays in a season • Changed program daily • Fondness for blank verse • Fixed line length easier for actors to memorize

  3. The Modern Theater • Realism • Examined complexities of human personality and psychology through “problem plays” • Conventions • Picture Frame Stage • Box Set • Keys: speak wherever they were on stage and act as if there were no audience (imitated reality) • Naturalism • Kind of realism in fiction & drama dealing with the more brutal or unpleasant aspects of reality • Antiheroes • Featured ordinary people, inglorious and inarticulate, who carry on not from bravery but from inertia

  4. Othello • Moor • Intro to characters • Intro to plot

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