Thursday, November 20, 2014

Basic Overview Of Phoenix Plays

By Ida Dorsey


A play is a piece to be played during a theatrical performance, mostly written according to rules of dramatic literature. For this purpose, the text consists mainly of dialogues between the characters, and, where appropriate, information on the staging (Phoenix plays). This is in addition to stage directions: setting, geographical location, light and sound environment, movement of characters (with borderline cases because some parts are made without verbal dialogue, eg Acts without Words by Samuel Beckett).

Interpreters of play are the actors; in modern theater the role of director is also important. Indeed, according to interpretation of text he wants to communicate to public, it takes (or sometimes does not resume ...) indications of staging written by the author, and added to his lead the actors.

The religious currents - to remedy the corruption of morals - trying to reconcile the religious spirit of new with the old pagan forms. The result is the sacred representation: it traces its birth holy homily, when it becomes dialogic educational purposes and exhortation. A more valid argument traces the passion play in development of Roman liturgy, which is already in its pure form is filled celebration of dramatic elements (the sacrifice of Mass as a symbolic representation, in form of dialogue between the celebrant and assistants).

The liturgical drama is closely related to ritual is recited in Latin by priests who support the most diverse parts and change identity not through customs or physical transformations, as through a stylized exterior. In figure of priest-actor believers contemplate the coveted anticipation of coming of Christ on earth.

The play are mostly written in verse. We then distinguish two different genres: comedy - as, for example, L'Avare by Moliere, which was inspired by Plautus Aulularia - and tragedy - as, for example, Jean Racine's Phedre, inspired by Euripides . Many tragedies are inspired by mythology. However there are also more baroque genres, such as comedy-ballet or parts to machines.

The concept of drama and drama is related more to a dialogue not a monologue or a poem (although it could be etymologically related to any form of literature devoted to scene). It is the presence oft least one other actor in dialogue that can better express the main feature of drama: the contrast between at least two different elements. Bernard Shaw, introducing his first volume of plays, says: "There is no play without conflict." A conflict can also occur in a lightweight text, and is its backbone.

The early nineteenth century saw the birth of romantic drama, a mixture of comedy and tragedy. This illustrates the literary genre of current era, romanticism, which is opposed to classicism. The rule of three units disappear, except for the unity of action, and the authors write in poetic prose or verse. Mention may be made with Alfred de Musset Lorenzaccio, with Victor Hugo Hernani, works in which the hero is marked by fate. The most popular genres are emerging: vaudeville, melodrama, theater boulevard.

Towards the end of nineteenth century (1887) appears a radically different kind, realistic drama, illustrated by Henry Becque and the Theatre Libre of Antoine that fits texts that were not originally intended for theater and s' open to foreign authors. It play Tolstoy, Balzac, but also Giovanni Verga or Turgenev. And unpublished works of famous writers: the Goncourt brothers, Villiers de L'Isle Adam1




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