July 15, 2011

Freytag’s “Technique of the Drama” — Chapter II, Part 3 now available.


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Gustav Freytag.

Chapter II, Part 3 of Gustav Freytag’s Technique of the Drama is now available on the Technique of Drama page.

This section covers the following topics on playwriting and stage drama: Origin of tragedy. Pathos scenes. Messenger scenes. Dialogues. Representation. The three actors. Scope of their work compared with modern actors. Same actor used to strengthen effects. Cast of parts. Ideas of preserved tragedies. Construction of the action. The characters. Ajax as an example. Peculiarity of Sophocles. His relation to the myth. The parts of the tragedy. Antigone. King Œdipus. Œdipus at Colonus. The Trachinian Women. Ajax.

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July 13, 2011

Freytag’s “Technique of the Drama” — Chapter II, Part 2 now available.


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Gustav Freytag.

Chapter II, Part 2 of Gustav Freytag’s Technique of the Drama is now available on the Technique of Drama page.

This section covers the following topics on playwriting and stage drama: The introduction. The exciting force (moment). The ascent. The tragic force or incident. Falling action. The force or motive of last suspense. The catastrophe. Necessary qualifications of the poet.

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July 12, 2011

Freytag’s “Technique of the Drama” — Chapter II, Part 1 now available.


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Gustav Freytag.

Chapter II, Part 1 of Gustav Freytag’s Technique of the Drama is now available on the Technique of Drama page.

This section covers the following topics on playwriting and stage drama: Two halves. Rise and fall. Two kinds of structure. Drama in which the chief hero leads. Drama of counter-play. Examples. Spectacleplay and tragedy.

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Freytag’s “Technique of the Drama” — Chapter I, Part 7 now available.


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Gustav Freytag.

Chapter I, Part 7 of Gustav Freytag’s Technique of the Drama is now available on the Technique of Drama page.

This section covers the following topics on playwriting and stage drama: How far the poet may not concern himself about it. The purging. Effects of ancient tragedy. Contrast with German tragedy. The tragic force (moment). The revolution and recognition.

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Freytag’s “Technique of the Drama” — Chapter I, Part 6 now available.


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Gustav Freytag.

Chapter I, Part 6 of Gustav Freytag’s Technique of the Drama is now available on the Technique of Drama page.

This section covers the following topics on playwriting and stage drama: Public actions. Inward struggles. Poet dramas. Nothing important to be omitted. Prince of Homburg. Antony and Cleopatra. Messenger scenes. Concealment and effect through reflex action. Effects by means of the action itself. Necessity of ascent. Contrasts. Parallel scenes.

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Freytag’s “Technique of the Drama” — Chapter I, Part 5 now available.


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Gustav Freytag.

Chapter I, Part 5 of Gustav Freytag’s Technique of the Drama is now available on the Technique of Drama page.

This section covers the following topics on playwriting and stage drama: Weakness of characters. Distinguished heroes. Private persons. Degrading the art.

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July 6, 2011

Freytag’s “Technique of the Drama” — Chapter I, Part 4 now available.


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Gustav Freytag.

Chapter I, Part 4 of Gustav Freytag’s Technique of the Drama is now available on the Technique of Drama page.

This section covers the following topics on playwriting and stage drama: Probability — What is probable. Social effects of the drama. The strange. The marvellous. Mephistopheles. The irrational. Shakespeare and Schiller.

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July 5, 2011

Freytag’s “Technique of the Drama” — Chapter I, Part 3 now available.


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Gustav Freytag.

Chapter I, Part 3 of Gustav Freytag’s Technique of the Drama is now available on the Technique of Drama page.

This section covers the following topics on playwriting and stage drama: Unity — The Law. Among the Greeks. How it is produced. How the unity of historical material is not secured. False unity. Where dramatic material is to be found. The character in the modern drama. Counter-play and its danger. Episodes.

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July 4, 2011

Freytag’s “Technique of the Drama” — Chapter I, Part 2 now available.


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Gustav Freytag.

Chapter I, Part 2 of Gustav Freytag’s Technique of the Drama is now available on the Technique of Drama page.

This section covers the following topics on playwriting and stage drama: What is Dramatic? — Explanation. Effects. Characters. The action. The dramatic life of the characters. Entrance of the dramatic into the life of men. Rareness of dramatic power.

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July 3, 2011

Freytag’s “Technique of the Drama” — Chapter I, Part 1 now available.


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via Wikimedia Commons
Gustav Freytag.

Chapter I, Part 1 of Gustav Freytag’s Technique of the Drama is now available on the Technique of Drama page.

This section covers the following topics on playwriting and stage drama: How the drama originates in the mind of the poet. Development of the idea. Material and its transformation. The historian and the poet. The range of material. Transformation of the real, according to Aristotle.

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