Tekstanalyse og –historie
(Spring 2009)
Session One: General Introduction
and Drama I
Agenda
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Introduction: The Aims and Means of the
Course
Drama I: Susan Glaspell, Trifles
Introduction
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2nd Semester. The analysis and history of
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Drama
Poetry
Film (JRC)
Introduction: the portfolio exam
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Autumn Semester 2008:
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Spring Semester 2009:
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Two assignments + teacher’s comments + your
individual reflections
A quiz + teacher’s comments + individual reflections
An individual assignment + teacher’s comments +
individual reflections
Concluding individual reflections
Assignments One and Two
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What to do with my comments
The Specificity of Dramatic Texts: A
Summary of Key Concepts
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Stage directions: characters, setting, placement
of actors, historical setting, props, visual
appearance, audio-visual appearance
Plot: rising action, climax, falling action.
(exposition, complication, climax, crisis,
resolution – reversal, recognition, turning point).
Sub-plot
Story and Plot ???
Characters and characterisation
http://www.theatrecrafts.com/gloss
ary/pages/stageplan.html
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of
Being Earnest
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Morning-room in Algernon’s flat in Half-Moon Street. The room is
luxuriously and artistically furnished. The sound of a piano is heard
in the adjoining room.
[Lane is arranging afternoon tea on the table, and after the music
has ceased, Algernon enters.]
Algernon. Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?
Lane. I didn’t think it polite to listen, sir.
Algernon. I’m sorry for that, for your sake. I don’t play accurately any one can play accurately - but I play with wonderful expression.
As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep
science for Life.
Lane. Yes, sir.
Algernon. And, speaking of the science of Life, have you got the
cucumber sandwiches cut for Lady Bracknell?
Lane. Yes, sir. [Hands them on a salver.]
Algernon. [Inspects them, takes two, and sits down on the sofa.]
Oh!... by the way, Lane, …
Dramatis Personae
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John Worthing, J.P.
Algernon Moncrieff
Rev. Canon Chasuble, D.D.
Merriman, Butler
Lane, Manservant
Lady Bracknell
Hon. Gwendolen Fairfax
Cecily Cardew
Miss Prism, Governess
Susan Glaspell, Trifles
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The stage directions
The characters: protagonist(s), antagonist(s)
The plot: Exposition, complication, climax, crisis,
resolution
Story and Plot ??? Are the events presented in
the order in which they happen?
The genre: intertextuality, parody, pastiche ???
Thematics and themes