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Dramatic Structure & Style To explore and understand: Elements of play construction Major genres and styles Playwright Analysis and criticism of selected plays/scenes   NOTE: All support materials will open in a new window. Use caution if you have a pop-up blocker! ARTICLES: Read/peruse these articles: The Text Tragedy Comedy & Tragicomedy Musical Theatre Dramatic Characters Dramatic Structure Other Forms View the instructor's summary Powerpoint™ presentations on each topic. Click "Open" to open the presentation, or "Save" if you'd like to save it to your computer. Click the "BACK" button to return to this module. The Play Script Playwriting and Dramaturgy   Need the Software? Click here. LINKS: Surf through some of these module-related links. All links open in a new window. Report a faulty link for an extra credit point! http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/tragedy.html Principles of tragedy http://www.mtishows.com/default_HOME.asp - Musical Theatre International - Musicals http://www.paricenter.com/library/papers/saner01.php Essay on Postmodern Theater http://www.vcu.edu/artweb/playwriting/content.html The Playwriting Seminar - Content http://town.hall.org/radio/Kennedy/SnowQueen/ How A Story Became a Play http://www.vcu.edu/artweb/playwriting/structure.html The Playwriting Seminar - Structure http://mockingbird.Creighton.edu/NCW/chekwrit.htm Anton Chekhov on Writing VIDEO CLIPS: There are no video clips for this module. SOUNDS: Listen to the exposition/story of each character in this song, Cell Block Tango , from Chicago, The Musical. Listen to or read the vocabulary words for these chapters: The Playscript & Playwriting and Dramaturgy SUMMARY: View these Adobe™ PDF files that provide a chapter outline. Tip: These are great study guides for the quizzes! The Playscript Playwriting and Dramaturgy CHAT/POST: 50 Points Log in to WebCT. Click on the "Discussions" link to the left. Discussions > Module 2 Post > Compose Discussion Message. Be a playwright! Post dialogue that you make up between two characters that you create. Please be appropriate. 16 lines of dialogue is the minimum required. SAMPLE: GENE: Marge, are you there? (GENE opens the pantry door to find MARGE clutching a bag of groceries) MARGE: Get away from me you Internet guru! The Internet is the devil and you are his follower! GENE: Calm down, sweetheart... it's me, your husband. And that's an Online Theatre course... not the devil. (MARGE throws items from the grocery bag at GENE) RESEARCH: 50 points Log in to WebCT. Submit a link to the instructor that you think would be good to include in this module. This is done as a quiz question. Click on the"Quizzes" link to the left, and click "Module 2 Link Submission." Your link is the answer to the question. Copy and paste it into the text box. QUIZ: 100 points Log in to WebCT. Click on the "Quizzes" link to the left and take the Module 2 Quiz. This quiz is relatively simple, the next two modules are much more content based... so be ready! When you've visited all the links and finished all the Quizzes, Congratulations! You're ready to move to the next module! NOTE: Modules and tests are often TIME RELEASED. This means that if you miss one, it cannot be made up later! Pace yourself!

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