Wardwell's Test!

Front 1

Stoppard's Message:

Back 1

1. Nihilistic Hedonism
2. We're Trapped
3. Certaintly? -Death? Direction?
4. Ontology unknown-"we can't have been sent for w/o a purpose.
5. Metadramatic reality-plays that are about plays

Front 2

Absurd Comedy

Back 2

1. Beckett: Nihilism w/ comic
2. Pinter- comedy of menace
3. Stoppard- comic withdrawl

Front 3

Echoes of Beckett

Back 3

1. Attendant Lords
2. Talk ( to know that they exist)
3. Passivity
4. Let's go
5. Barrels

Front 4

Humor in Guildenstern

Back 4

1. Repetitive Conversation
2. The Question Game
3. Death in a box
4. Theatrical jokes- Fire! Fire!
5. Escape Humor
6. Lick your toe
7. Name confusion
8. No past

Front 5

Beckett does not use...

Back 5

1. reparti -turning words around in meaning
2. wit
3. pun
4. conundrum
5. riddle

Front 6

Absurd-ism in Waiting for Godot

Back 6

1. Memory
2. Going
3. Nothing to be done
4. Night
5. Time
6. Judgment
7. Happiness/unhappiness/satisfaction
8. God/ the Bible
9. Talk

Front 7

The Metadramatic

Back 7

1. Definition: Drama about drama
2. Means
a. A play within a play
b. Ceremony in play (makes reference to himself)
c. role- playing within a role
d. contemporary referencing
e. self referencing

Front 8

Morality in The Children's Hour

Back 8

1. Human Nature: Good or Evil?
2. Sexuality: Lesbian lovers?
3. Trust: earned or absolute?
4. Epistemology: knowledge to act on?
5. Social Justice: bourgeoise vs. proletariat
6. righteousness: self imputed?

Front 9

Harold Pinter List

Back 9

1. Isolation and insulation
2. Secretive Tantalization
3. Violence
4. "Comedy vs. Menace"
5. Conversation and Silence

Front 10

Things to Consider in a Play

Back 10

1. Theme
2. Structure
3. Spectacle
4. Characters
5. Tone (Music)
6. Language