Analyze a play, any play, from an outside source, using the elements of drama and also answer the following questions with it:
a. What genre does this play fall into?
b. What terms from our drama chapters apply to it [listed below]?
c. What is the purpose of the play and overall significance for the reader.
These questions can be answered in any order in the essay, but must be in the analysis.
Application of terms to use:
Elements of Plot: Protagonist, Antagonist, Exposition, Conflict, Complication, Crisis, Climax, Conclusion, Double plot [subplot], Unities, Soliloquy Aside, Stage business, Tragedy, Comedy [kinds of comedy: High, Satiric, Comedy of manners, Romantic, Low, Burlesque, Farce, Slapstick], Stagecraft in Ancient Greece [Orchestra, Skene, Deus es Machina, Masks, Cothurni], and Elements of Classical Tragedy [Hamartia, Tragic flaw, Hubris, Katharsis, Peripeteia and Recognition.]
For this assignment, first detail your paper’s “thesis”. Second outline the points of your paper; that is, create a skeletal framework that details the points of your paper. This can be fairly basic; I mainly want to know what you are going to write about and that you have a framework for the paper itself. The Introduction, Thesis, and Conclusion should be noted in the outline as part of the skeletal framework. This should be on a separate page than the essay and work cited pages.
Formatting Guidelines:
Page length is to be at least three full pages, double spaced,
1″ margins, 12-point legible font. Should be in essay format, with an introduction and conclusion. Cite sources in MLA. Must have a separate works cited page and in-text citations of your sources.
