Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 1 AIL 0033 short lesson, about 20 seconds
A Procedure for Drama
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The idea
Ask who is on stage and who is absent, because drama turns on what is not heard. Ask whether a speech is addressed to another character or to the audience. Ask what the audience knows that the speaker does not.
In practice
Who hears this, and who cannot?
Where people slip
Absence carries as much as presence.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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