2.  -Career: An actor, a businessman, and a playwright  -Theatre: The Globe  -Time Period: English Renaissance

3.  The word drama comes from the Greek, meaning to do or to act.  Drama originated in ancient Greece and began as a contest.  Dramatic plays are stories performed by actors on stage before an audience.  The actors work from a script written by a playwright.

4.  Characters:  -These are the people who appear in the play.  -They can be major or minor characters.  -They can be protagonist or antagonist.  -Foil: highlight the protagonist through opposite characteristics.

5.  Character Conversion: refers to how a character changes throughout the play. -The way they act (volition) -The way they feel (sentiment)  * Watch for an event that helps the character learn and grow causing him to act or feel differently. This is often tied into the climax and resolution of the play.

6.  The plot of a drama is structured with acts and scenes and usually follows a typical plot structure, exposition, rising action climax, falling action, and conclusion.

7.  A dominant or repetitive idea.

8.  The words spoken by the characters. The dialogue moves the action along.

9.  Plays were meant to be performed in front of an audience.  The audience reaction becomes part of the performance.

10.  Stage Craft: The actors are limited to what can be performed on a stage.  *Think about just that little box that they have to work in. These limits lead to the development of effects for the setting and the action of the play. -Stage Design: - Stage -Scenery - Lighting -Costumes -Stage Directions: tell actors when to enter, exit, or how to say lines.

11.  - Chorus- a group of actors who respond to the action of the play.  - Soliloquy: a speech made to oneself; only the audience hears.  - Aside: a remark made only to the side audience that the other actors on the stage can’t hear.  - Flashbacks: remembering things that happened before.  - Monologue: a long speech made by a character and heard by other characters  -Dramatic Irony- When the audience knows something that the characters do not

12.  Comedy: a play about a main character whose fortune or fate is improved. Shakespearean Comedies generally end in a wedding.  Tragedy: a play that depicts the downfall of a character due to a tragic flaw. Shakespearean tragedies usually end in death, usually to end a corrupted social order.

13.  The ending is unhappy.  A main character dies.  A tragic hero has a flaw that is ultimately responsible for his or her own downfall. ◦ A common tragic flaw is hubris, which means excessive pride or arrogance. ◦ Tragic heroes make a fatal error or mistake that leads to their downfall. This is called hamartia.