Concetti Chiave
- A play is structured into acts and scenes, typically following a five-act format: introduction, development, crisis, complications, and resolution.
- Dramatic texts often include a prologue and epilogue, with the prologue providing essential background and the epilogue requesting applause.
- Dialogue is crucial in drama, as it drives the action, reveals character relationships, and provides information about the past and future events.
- Soliloquies and monologues offer insights into a character's thoughts, plans, and feelings, even when other characters are present on stage.
- Characters in a play are categorized based on their importance to the story, with roles such as hero, heroine, and villain being common archetypes.
Indice
- Structure of a play
- Role of prologue and epilogue
- Soliloquy and monologue
- Purpose of asides
- Role of stage directions
Structure of a play
A play consists of a number of acts divided into scenes. All Shakespearian plays, for example, are made up of five acts:
- Act 1: introduction;
- Act 2: development;
- Act 3: crisis or turning point;
- Act 4: complications;
- Act 5: denouément, that is the resolving of all difficulties.
Role of prologue and epilogue
Tragedies are generally introduced by a prologue spoken by the chorus; it provides information about the main character or the subject of the play. Often an epilogue follows the play in order to request applause. It is usually played bya central character, as opposed to the classical epilogue, usually acted by an anonymous character or a mask.
Place and time can be inferred both from the dialogue and the stage directions.
Dialogue is the main support of drama since:
- it creates the actions
- it provides details about the characters and their relationship
- it shows what a character thinks about another
- it gives information about the past and can foreshadow subsequent events.
Soliloquy and monologue
Soliloquy and monologue are special conventions: whereas in the former the character is alone on the stage, in the latter there are other characters but the speaker ignores them. These devices enable the playwright to let the audience know the character's:
- thoughts about a specific problem
- plans for the future
- feelings and reactions
- explanation of what happens between scenes
Purpose of asides
Asides are short comments made by a character for the audience alone, usually occurring in or between speeches.
Their purpose can be:
- to reveal the nature of the speaker
- to graw the attention of the audience to the importance of what has been said or to explain developments
- to create humour by introducing the unexpected
- Stage directions are open interventions of the playwright to provide information that cannot be conveyed through the dialogue
Role of stage directions
The number of characters, which in the past were called Dramàtis Personae, may vary but always includes:
- a hero
- a heroine
- in the tragedies, a villan who does all shorts of evil actions
Characters can be divided into main or minor according to how important they are for the story.
When analysing a character we should take into consideration
How the character is presented:
- Through dialogue
- Through soliloquies
- Through asides
- Through stage directions
His/her development throughout the play:
- how does he/she change, why and when
- his/her motivation to aviation
- his/her relationship with other character
Domande da interrogazione
- ¿Cuál es la estructura típica de una obra dramática según el texto?
- ¿Qué papel juegan el soliloquio y el monólogo en una obra dramática?
- ¿Cómo se utiliza el diálogo en el drama?
- ¿Qué aspectos se deben considerar al analizar un personaje en una obra dramática?
Una obra dramática generalmente se compone de varios actos divididos en escenas. Las obras de Shakespeare, por ejemplo, tienen cinco actos: introducción, desarrollo, crisis o punto de inflexión, complicaciones y desenlace.
El soliloquio y el monólogo son convenciones especiales que permiten al dramaturgo revelar los pensamientos, planes futuros, sentimientos y reacciones de un personaje, así como explicar lo que ocurre entre escenas.
El diálogo es fundamental en el drama ya que crea acciones, proporciona detalles sobre los personajes y sus relaciones, muestra lo que un personaje piensa de otro, y da información sobre el pasado y eventos futuros.
Al analizar un personaje, se debe considerar cómo es presentado a través del diálogo, soliloquios, apartes y direcciones escénicas, así como su desarrollo, motivaciones y relaciones con otros personajes.
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