İNGİLİZ/AMERİKAN EDEBİYATI II

Allusion: an implicit reference to another piece of work of art or literature, to a person or an event.

Rising action has three important parts:
• Exposition: In the exposition, characters, setting and main events are introduced. It is the opening of a play. In fact, the rising action starts just after the exposition.
• Conflict: It is the opposition between the main character and another person or
inanimate force. 
• Climax: It is the turning point of a play. It may not be the point which we feel the tension most, but it is the point that changes the course of action.

Protagonist: The main character of a play. S/he is the character who experiences and is influenced by the conflict most.

All the visual elements including the movement and spatial relationships of characters, lighting, costumes, setting and properties in a play are named as spectacle. Music is not one of them.

Catastrophe: the death or the destruction of the tragic hero.

Well known examples of romantic comedies are Shakespeare’s As
You Like It and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Most well known realist playwrights are Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, Anton Chekhov, Maksim Gorky, Eugene O’Neill. Emile Zola is a Naturalist playwright.

The most well known example of this type of drama is Kitchen by Arnold Wesker. John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger is perhaps the most well known example for the drama produced at this period in time. Every Man in His Humour by Ben Johnson is an example of comedy of humors. Richard Steele’s The Conscious Lovers is an example of sentimental comedy.

The Victorian Period was considered to be quite a sterile period for drama because of the rise of the novel as a literary genre. The period was marked by two very important dramatists Oscar Wilde and through the end of the age Bernard Shaw.

Most of the plays written during this period were written in verse, and they
mostly used iambic pentameter. However, although the plays were written in verse, the language of the plays was comparatively simple, so everybody could understand. The characters in the plays were also more realistic in that they were no longer the representations of virtue as in the miracle and mystery plays of the medieval drama.