英美戏剧综述.ppt

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Websites and blogs Many Sunday newspapers contain reviews of local plays Some playwrights keep a blog: three are listed. Internet Broadway Database Curtain Up Student writing about plays List of 8 ways you may be asked to write about drama; we will focus on the journal entries and our essay exam. Suggestions for annotating, and summarizing a play Suggestions for personal journals How to write a personal response How to write an intervention – when you add on to a story or play (write the next scene) in order to answer a question or add your own twist. We saw several examples in Poetry Unit. Guidelines for writing a critical analysis Chapter 22: Sophocles (Greek drama) He was one of four famous playwrights. Greek drama gives us several key components we still see used today: The tragic hero – with some of flaw or weakness that heads to his downfall The concept of hubris – the overconfidence that leads to a person falling The debate: do tragic heroes bring trouble upon themselves by their actions, or are they just the “playthings” of fate? Greek theatre /wiki/Greek_theatre Antigone Play begins on page 1303 We will watch 10-15 minutes of a video version done by the BBC (British) that sort of modernizes the story, with costumes that suggest the late 1800s The play continues a story begun in an earlier play, about a man named Oedipus who accidentally marries his mother. Antigone is his daughter. The Play uses the messenger and the chorus Themes in Antigone The conflict between man made law (“the King has declared….”) and a higher law (decency, morality, humanitarian concepts) The destructiveness of war. Antigone’s two brothers die in a bloody civil war: one is honored as a patriot and the other is considered a traitor. The stubbornness of the King in spite of his son’s pleading for Antigone’s life – and then realizing that his son was right. The idea that the children suffer for the par