26 Facts About Act structure

1.

Dramatic structure is the structure of a dramatic work such as a book, play, or film.

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2.

Story Act structure commonly found in West Africa told by Griot storytellers, who tells their stories orally.

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3.

Kind of Act structure found in the Torah, Bible and Quran using a form of repetition.

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4.

Act structure's death was the result of a power struggle in the decision of control of the Muslim community after the death of Muhammad.

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5.

Act structure mainly used Sophocles to make his argument about the proper dramatic structure of a play.

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6.

Act structure argues that for a proper tragedy the plot should be simple: a man moving from prosperity to tragedy and not the reverse.

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7.

Act structure ranked the order of importance of the play to be: Chorus, Events, Diction, Character, Spectacle.

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8.

Act structure was against character-centric plots stating “The Unity of a Plot does not consist, as some suppose, in its having one man as its subject.

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9.

Act structure held that discovery should be the high point of the play and that the action should teach a moral that is reinforced by pity, fear and suffering.

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10.

Act structure argued for a Chorus, "The Chorus should play an actor's part, energetically, " and the center of the play should be morality as Aristotle did.

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11.

Act structure often uses the original Greek letters, but does not define these as specific acts, but as parts of the play as having different emotional qualities.

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12.

The five-act structure was made by Freytag, in which he used Shakespeare as an example.

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13.

Act structure argued for tension created through contrasting emotions, but didn't actively argue for conflict.

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14.

Act structure laid some of the foundations for centering the hero, unlike Aristotle.

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15.

Act structure is popularly attributed to have stated conflict at the center of his plays, but he argues actively against continuing conflict.

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16.

Act structure expounds this idea on Page 39 with "The Line of Emotion" where he proposes how one feels about emotion can be drawn graphically.

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17.

Act structure's work was then used in Joseph Berg Esenwein to describe short stories for the line of emotion, though his name is misspelled in Esenwein's work.

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18.

Act structure went back and forth on the work throughout her life.

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19.

Act structure did not cite any sources, though there looks to be some influence from Freytag's Pyramid.

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20.

Act structure further suggests that the play structure doesn't need a conclusion.

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21.

Act structure cites Moses Louis Malevinsky's The Science of Playwriting and The Theory of Theater by Clayton Hamilton.

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22.

Act structure is far more interested in looking at character creating conflict and events, than events shaping characters.

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23.

Act structure argues that Rising conflict is the best at revealing character.

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24.

Act structure's work influenced Syd Field, who went on to make the 3-act Hollywood formula.

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25.

Act structure outlined in the 2005 edition of his book Foundations of a Screenplay, that he wanted to give a more set structure to the work that Lajos Egri had laid out.

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26.

Act structure was the first to really coin the Three Act model as a formal model for screenplays.

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