Realistic and Nonrealistic Drama

Realistic and Nonrealistic Drama

<p>Realistic and Nonrealistic Drama- Perrine</p><p>1. Literary truth in drama is not the same as ______.</p><p>2. Supernatural characters serve as ______.</p><p>3. What additional dimension of possible unreality is added with drama?</p><p>4. Even when drama is realistic it still involves a ______. Give some examples of this.</p><p>5. List the examples of described in paragraphs 4 and 5 of the chapter.</p><p>6. Who chooses the realistic or nonrealistic stage sets, costuming and makeup?</p><p>7. Explain what the text states about the use of language and the management of dialogue.</p><p>8. Art is always ______, else it would have ______.</p><p>9. Define dramatic conventions: a. List a necessary convention-</p><p> b. List optional conventions-</p><p> c. Why might a person judge a play defective?</p><p> d. Explain the analogy made to a photograph.</p><p>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:</p><p> b. Explain how Albee in The Sandbox “deliberately violates the self containment of the fictional world”:</p><p>11. Explain why in drama the adjective realistic must be regarded as descriptive not evaluative:</p>

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