This week, we read talked about plagiarism, drama, and read Oedipus.
Plagiarism is using another's ideas or words as your own.
- order of ideas counts as well.
- be careful paraphrasing - change the order of ideas, not just words.
- not necessary to cite something if it's common knowledge; that is, not proprietary knowledge. If many sources agree on a certain fact, it does not need to be cited.
Drama is a performance used to create an illusion of reality - "verisimilitude."
- requires the "willing suspense of disbelief"
- sometimes playwright has to make compromises to make a production work - not as flexible as filmmakers or novelists
Types of Drama:
- Tragedy: usually involves ruin of leading character (s); fall of a noble, though flawed, character.
- Comedy: leading character(s) overcome a difficulty
- Melodrama: blend of tragedy and comedy - serious action with a happy ending
- Tragi-Comedy: like melodrama, but more complex; more likely to contain humor
- Problem Play: drama of social criticism; discusses problems facing society
- Farce: ridiculous comedy
- Comedy of Manners: comedy that "wittily portrays fashionable life"
- Domestic/Bourgeois Drama: serious play that deals with "ordinary" people
Pass. Maybe add some connections. But good organization and points.
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