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Theater 10 - Midterm - CH 7
Creating Theater
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 1
04/22/2009

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Bourgeois or Domestic Drama
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deals with problems (particularly familial) of middle and lower class characters.
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Burlesque
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a satirical and comically exaggerated play of some serious form of literature.
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Comedy
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a play that is light in tone, concerned with less-serious issues, ends happily, and is meant to amuse.
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Comedy of Manners
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form of comic drama popular in 17th century Fr & Eng theater, emphasizing a cultivated or sophisticated atmosphere and witty dialogue i.e. The Importance of Being Earnest.
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Comic Premise
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the idea or concept in a comedy that turns the accepted notion of things upside down.
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Farce
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dramatic genre usually regarded as a subclass of comedy, emphasis on plot complications and few intellectual pretensions. Nearly slapstick, i.e. Noises Off.
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Genre
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category or type of play.
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Heroic Drama
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serious but optimistic drama, includes noble or heroic characters in extreme situations or unusual adventures i.e. Hercules.
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Melodrama
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sensational play, emphasizes action and spectacular effects and also used music; has stock characters and clearly defined villains and heroes.
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Satire
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dramatic form using techniques of comedy (like wit, irony, exaggeration) to attack and expose folly and vice, especially politically i.e. Colbert Report.
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Slapstick
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type of comedy relies on ridiculous physical activity (often violent) for its humor i.e. The Three Stooges.
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Tragedy
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dramatic form involving serious actions of universal significance and with important moral and philosophical implications, usually with an unhappy ending.
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Tragicomedy
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from the Renaissance; a play having tragic themes and noble characters but a happy ending while today, its one in which serious and comic elements are integrated.
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