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drama
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a composition in prose or verse presenting in dialogue or pantomime a story involving conflict or contrast of character, especially one intended to be acted on the stage; a play.
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dramatic license
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when an actor/director go outside of the script and add their own interpretation to the physical text.
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melodrama
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a dramatic form that does not observe the laws of cause and effect and that exaggerates emotion and emphasizes plot or action at the expense of characterization.
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act
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1. the major division of a play; 2. to perform by representing a character in a play
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antagonist
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the character of force opposing the main character in a play.
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climax
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highest point of dramatic tension in a script. Usually the crux of the play, when the major conflict can proceed no further without beginning the process of resolution.
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comedy
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a play with a mixture of humor and pathos, that celebrates the eternal ironies and struggles of human existence, and ends happily
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conflict
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discord of action, feeling, or effect; antagonism or opposition, as of interests or principles:
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dialogue
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conversation actors have on stage with each other
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denouement
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final scene of a play when the plot is unraveled and the play is brought to a tidy conclusion
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aside
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unspoken thoughts of a character delivered directly to the audience with the other characters on stage but unable to hear what is being said
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flashback
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theatrical convention in which the audience is able to see scenes from the past through the eyes of one of the characters in a play
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foreshadowing
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action or dialogue in one part of a play that gives hints to something that will happen in another part of the production
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inferences
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a. the process of deriving the strict logical consequences of assumed premises.
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playwright
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person who writes or adapts properties known as play; in most traditions, the first and most creative artist of all those who collaborate to make theatre. It is the playwright’s property that stimulates the impetus for a full-fledged production. In musicals, the writers include the writers of the music, the lyrics, and the book
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play
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a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
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plot
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the story line of a play developed through a logical unfolding of a series of events; also indicated a very detailed layout of lighting, properties, etc.
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monologue
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uninterrupted speech delivered by one character in a play to other characters who are at least present, if not listening
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protagonist
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the main character or hero of a play
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set, setting
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indicates the place where the action of a play occurs through the arrangement of the scenery, furniture, lighting and props establishing this place of action
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scene
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division of an act, usually denoting a change in time or place; can also be the descriptor for the locale of a play
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stage directions
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those instructions given to the actor by the director
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tragedy
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play that treats, at the most uncompromising level, human suffering. Modern tragedy involves ordinary people, rather than the nobility of classical tragedy, and is written generally in prose rather than verse. The common men or women probe the same depths and ask the same questions as their predecessors.
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soliloquy
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inner thoughts of a character spoken alone on stage to explore the character’s private thoughts; often lyric in style and highly emotional
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