Realistic and Nonrealistic Drama

Realistic and Nonrealistic Drama- Perrine

1. Literary truth in drama is not the same as ______.

2. Supernatural characters serve as ______.

3. What additional dimension of possible unreality is added with drama?

4. Even when drama is realistic it still involves a ______. Give some examples of this.

5. List the examples of described in paragraphs 4 and 5 of the chapter.

6. Who chooses the realistic or nonrealistic stage sets, costuming and makeup?

7. Explain what the text states about the use of language and the management of dialogue.

8. Art is always ______, else it would have ______.

9. Define dramatic conventions: a. List a necessary convention-

b. List optional conventions-

c. Why might a person judge a play defective?

d. Explain the analogy made to a photograph.

10. In most plays, the world into which we are taken—however unreal it may be—is treated as ______, and we are asked to regard it temporarily as a ______. a. Explain this in relation to A Midsummer Night’s Dream:

b. Explain how Albee in The Sandbox “deliberately violates the self containment of the fictional world”:

11. Explain why in drama the adjective realistic must be regarded as descriptive not evaluative: