Finish Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Drama Test Study Guide
Works covered: Oedipus, Hamlet, Tartuffe, A Doll’s House, Death of a Salesman, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Authors of all of the plays
All character names (correct spelling preferred—or at least close)
Drama Terms
o aside, soliloquy, monologue, dramatic irony
Greek Drama Terms, development of, and general knowledge
o Hubris, harmartia, peripeteia, epiphany, catharsis, stichomythia
o Aristotle and Aristotelian Unities (Time, location, plot)
o Thespis, Aeschylus, Sophocles
Shakespearean Drama Terms and general knowledge
o Groundlings foil
Test format:
90 Questions (Mostly fill in the blank)
20 True/False Questions
5 even timeline questions for each play
Quotations identification
Term identification
Oedipus Chronology
Check out Carly's cool Doll House Chronology
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Friday, February 26, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Due Friday, February 12
Finish reading a Doll's House.
Then, choose from Nora, Helmer, Rank, Krogstand, or Kristine and write a 1 1/2 to 2 page character analysis. Consider internal conflicts, motivations, desires, psychoanalysis...
Make sure to use direct quotations from the text to support your ideas.
Then, choose from Nora, Helmer, Rank, Krogstand, or Kristine and write a 1 1/2 to 2 page character analysis. Consider internal conflicts, motivations, desires, psychoanalysis...
Make sure to use direct quotations from the text to support your ideas.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Due Thursday, 2/4
Read Acts I and II of Tartuffe paying careful attention to satire. Before you read the play, please read the background information immediately preceding it on French Neoclassical theater. You may also want to make note any thematic parallels to the two other plays we have read so far.
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