26 Facts About Dramatic structure

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

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

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

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

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

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Dramatic 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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Dramatic 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.

Dramatic 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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Dramatic 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 Dramatic structure was made by Freytag, in which he used Shakespeare as an example.

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

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

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Dramatic 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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Dramatic 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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Dramatic 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.

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

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19.

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

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20.

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

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21.

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

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

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23.

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

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24.

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

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25.

Dramatic 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.

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

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