4. 19. Allusion: A reference to well-known people, places, or events from history,
historical documents, literature, or myth, for example.
20. Motive: A reason for a character’s thoughts or actions.
21. Gesture:The physical movement of a character during a play. Gesture is used
to reveal character, and may include facial expressions as well as movements
of other parts of an actor's body. Sometimes a playwright will be very explicit
about both bodily and facial gestures, providing detailed instructions in the
play's stage directions.
19. Props: Articles or objects that appear on stage during a play.The Christmas
tree in A Doll's House and Laura's collection of glass animals in The Glass
Menagerie are examples.
5. 23. Stage direction: A playwright's descriptive or interpretive comments that
provide readers (and actors) with information about the dialogue, setting,
and action of a play. Modern playwrights, including Ibsen, Shaw, Miller, and
Williams tend to include substantial stage directions, while earlier
playwrights typically used them more sparsely, implicitly, or not at all.
24. Staging:The spectacle a play presents in performance, including the
position of actors on stage, the scenic background, the props and costumes,
and the lighting and sound effects.
25. Fourth wall:The imaginary wall of the box theater setting, supposedly
removed to allow the audience to see the action.
6. Begin Coordination of your GroupWork
■ Set up an electronic collaboration system to minimize
scheduling problems.
■ Appoint a note-taker within your group.
■ Assign different members leadership jobs in different
aspects of the project: planning, coordinating, research, IT
skills, writing skills, presentation skills.
■ Make a plan that assures your project is ready on time.
■ Check video or computer needs ahead of time.
■ Let me know well ahead of time if you need me to help you
do something.
7. Homework
■ Project #3 Due noon Friday
■ Work on your drama projects
■ Study for terms test #3
