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Types of Staging

Types of ART:
1) Language Art
2) Visual Art
3) Performing Art
(Theatre, like dance, is a performing
Art)
PERFORMANCE RECIPE:
1 performance space
(At least 1) audience

TYPES OF STAGING
1) Theatre-in-the-Round:
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TYPES OF STAGING
2) Traverse Stage:
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TYPES OF STAGING
3) Thrust Stage
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The Stage

HOUSE LEFT
STAGE RIGHT

STAGE

AUDIENCE

HOUSE RIGHT
STAGE LEFT

TYPES OF STAGING
4) Proscenium Arch Staging
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TYPES OF STAGING
5) Found Spaces
- Any place, as long as you have an
audience
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The Globe Theatre

Beijing Opera Stage

SHAKESPEARE AND THEATRE

William Shakespeare
23 April 1564 to 23 April 1616

Shakespeare’s Birth
• Born in small town of Stratford-Upon-Avon,
England
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 Father, John Shakespeare, served on the
council that governed the town, and made his
living as a glove-maker
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Snapshots of Shakespeare’s House

Shakespeare and School
• Atte ded a petty s hool at the age of 4
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(At 6, girls left the school to be taught at
home by mothers, or private tutors if they were
rich
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• Latin was taught – necessary to go to university in
order to pursue a career in Law, Medicine,
Teaching or the Church
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The hours were long
and the lessons were dull, and their behaviour was
strictly controlled
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~ As You Like It
• Children learned to read
usi g a hor ook , a pie e
of wood covered with printed
paper, protected by a sheet of
transparent horn
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• O e of Shakespeare s first plays:
Titus Andronicus (a bloodthirsty tragedy)

Shakespeare’s Inspiration
• At school, Shakespeare was introduced to the
work of ancient Roman authors such as
Seneca (4BC to 65AD) Seneca wrote serious
plays called tragedies, which dealt with the
sufferings of great heroes
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Queen Elizabeth
• Queen Elizabeth enjoyed watching plays
although she had never visited the public
playhouses
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• She as Shakespeare s patro
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• Players were then commanded to give private
performances for the court in the palaces
around London
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Lord Chamberlain’s Men
• As a result of a bad plague, London
playhouses had to close
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• Richard Burbage was the star
actor of the plays that
Shakespeare had written
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Building the Globe Theatre

Staging A Play
• Plays at The Globe were performed in the
afternoon, by daylight
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• There was no director in charge of a
production – players knew what was expected
of them and worked together for the staging
of the play
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• A fluttering fan was a good prop for a boy
playing a woman
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Simple Pronouns
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Thou –
Thee –
Thy –
Thine –
If thou art mine then I am thine
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• Variety of word weapons (not commonplace)

Your bum is the greatest
thing about you
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Shakespeare would say:
Thou art a foul, tear-inducing piece of utter
garbage
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How Would Shakespeare Insult?
English:
You are a smelly piece of rubbish
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adjective

noun

How Would Shakespeare Insult?
Shakespeare would say:
Thou art a foul, tear-inducing piece of
adjective 1

adjective 2

utter garbage
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(Use 2!)
 Adjectives describe nouns
e
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 To attack completely
e
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You are an utterly lazy person!
3) Use of metaphor (comparison)
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• A=B
• Thou (A) art a sloth (B)
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• Fill in the blanks!
Thou __Column A__, __Column B__
__Column C__!
Thou puny, pox-marked maggot-pie!

The Bard’s Creativity
Types of Attacks:
a) Appearance (height/looks/size)
b) Intelligence
c) Social standing
d) Ability (lack of)
e) Disturbance to 5 senses
POINT TO NOTE: We are not teaching you to be
rude! Just sharing the Bard’s use of language!

Some of the Famous Insults
Thou art a disease that
must be cut away
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(As You Like It)

Some of the Famous Insults
If you spend word for word
with me, I shall make
your wit bankrupt
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(Richard III)

The Influence of
Shakespeare
You are quoting The Bard
and you might not know!

Thou Quoteth Me!
Muahahaa
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The Co ed of Errors
More of our o ersatio ould
i fe t
rai
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As You Like It
He has ot so u h rai as eara
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Our conversation is so
rotten/horrible/low that my
intelligence will be affected/diseased
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He has not much of a brain!

How to Talk Like Me!
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2
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3
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How to Talk Like Me!
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5
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How to Talk Like Me!
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How to Talk Like Me!
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If that fails, say Get thee to a
u er !
10
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If that fails, throw him in the Tower,
banish his friends and claim the throne
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Do you see a structure like this?
Climax

Resolution
Complications

Orientation

Sequence of events
Climax

Resolution
Complications

Orientation

OCSCR
• Orientation: who, when, where
• Complications: Events that causes
complications and propels the story forward
• Sequence of events:
• Climax: the point of highest tension, and the
turning point
• Resolution: The story comes to an end after
the conflict/complication is resolved

Now, arrange the pictures in order
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Which box(es) is/are the orientation?
Which box(es) is/are the complication?
Which box(es) is/are the climax?
Which box(es) is/are the resolution?

Do you see a structure like this?

The Five-Act Structure
ALL of Shakespeare’s pla s uses this
structure

ACT 1
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• Introduce any/all thematic elements that are
going to resonate throughout the story, and any
problems or goals your protagonist is facing (i
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the conflict)
• Classic conflicts and themes:
– the trappings of power,
– the futility of vengeance,
– the fickle nature of love
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Rising Action
• Secondary conflicts and obstacles designed to
keep our protagonist from reaching his or her
goal
• This includes lesser antagonists that can work
together with or without the main antagonist
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Cli a or Tur i g Poi t
• Protago ist’s jour e towards the goal has a
notable change, either for the better or the
worse
• Tragedy: everything begins to unravel
• Comedies: everything turns better
• Quite simply, this is where the bulk of the
drama or action takes place
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Falling Action
• The conflict comes to an end, and a clear winner and
loser are determined
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As you may have deduced, a
'False Victory' is punished with a final defeat, while the
'False Defeat' is rewarded with a true victory
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• This Falling Action may also contain a final moment of
suspense, in which one or more possible outcomes are
in doubt until the Resolution
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Dénoument or Resolution
• All of the conflicts are resolved, the characters
return to normalcy, and the viewer
experiences an emotional release (catharsis)
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• A good rule of thumb is, for every positive event
your protagonist experiences, it must
immediately be followed up by a negative event
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Do you see a structure like this?

The Shakespearean Tragic Hero

Qualities of a
Shakespearean Tragic Hero
1
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He must basically be a good
person
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He must matter to us (and we
must see him as a worthwhile
person*
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Because of his position, his
actions usually have far-reaching
effects
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He must possess a character trait
or quality which is viewed as a
FATAL FLAW under the special
circumstances of the play
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He usually makes further errors
in his judgement following his
misdeed
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Often, he has a distorted perception
of, or is blind to reality
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He suffers both outwardly
(alienation, isolation, attacks)
and inwardly (tortured
conscience)
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The Fatal Flaw (Hamartia)
- The key element in the downfall of a person (the protagonist)
- The fatal flaw might have been a virtue in normal
circumstances (like, for Macbeth)

The Fatal Flaw (Hamartia)
- Four Mature Tragedies
1
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Macbeth – AMBITION
3
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King Lear – SELF-DELUSION

Theme of
Appearance mature
vs Reality
- Present in all four
tragedies
Recall: Quality of Tragic Hero
Often, he has a distorted
perception of, or is blind to,
reality
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(King Lear)
There’s o art to fi d the
co structio i the face

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