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Genre
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French word meaning category or typeOldest and best-known genres are tragedy and comedy
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Traditional tragedies
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Heroes/heroines must pay for their mistakesTragic irretrievability-no going backAcceptance of responsibilityTragic Verse-Poetry
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Modern Tragedy
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No queens or kings as central figures, written in prose. Probe the same depths and asks the same questions
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Comedy
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Suspension of natural laws. Contrast between individuals and the social order. Outrageous characters in the real world, real characters in outrageous world
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Farce
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Thrives on exaggeration, broad physical humor
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Burlesque
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Ludicrous imitation of other forms of drama or of an individual play
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Satire
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Uses wit and irony through language to expose evil and foolishness
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Domestic Comedy
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A type of play that deals with family situations that are found most frequently today in television situation comedies
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Comedy of manners
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Points up foibles and peculiarities of upper class
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Classical acting
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Development of the Inner feelings of the character, a sense of the physical and vocal qualities of the character. a master of the classic language of the play. an athletic ability and control of body
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Three challenges of acting
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To acquire the many skills both physical and vocal that stage performances demand, to make characters believable, to integrate these two that is to combine skills with credibility
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Stanislavkisystem
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System of teaching acting which consists of Relaxation, concentration and observation, and importance of specifics
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Inner Truth
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Thoughts and emotions of the character
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Rehearsals
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Performers gradually memorize their lines and flesh out their characterrs
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Blocking
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The arrangements and movements of performers relative to eachother as well to the furniture and to the places where they enter and leave the stage
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