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WRITING ABOUT plays is similar to writing about other forms of literature. You have to be alert to details of plot, setting, and characterization. But because plays rely solely on dialogue to convey their messages, reading drama and writing about it is unique. This chapter will show you how to interpret characterization and theme based on dialogue. | CHAPTER TWELVE Writing About Drama WRITING ABOUT plays is similar to writing about other forms of literature. You have to be alert to details of plot setting and characterization. But because plays rely solely on dialogue to convey their messages reading drama and writing about it is unique. This chapter will show you how to interpret characterization and theme based on dialogue. Plays are not written to be read. Plays are written to be performed. They are meant to be seen. Fortunately with good video and DVD and some wonderful adaptations of performances for the screen many of the plays that you are required to read in school are also available for you to see on your TV screen. There is however nothing like seeing a play performed live. In either case video or stage the opportunity to see and hear the play enhances the reading of it. There are two reasons for this. 127 Writing About Drama EXPRESS YOURSELF First plays rely on dialogue the simple exchange of conversation between people or in the case of certain plays soliloquies. But as you well know your mother can call you for dinner and it is the tone of her voice her pitch and her body language that conveys her mood. The same words minus the tone of her voice and her body posture can have many different meanings. When you read dialogue you have to be able to read between the lines so it is imperative that any play be read at least two if not three times. What you might say. I have to read something twice when I hated it once Yes. And your teacher s have probably already set it up that way for you. You read it over at night for homework but then you read it again carefully with nuance in class. Consider the soliloquies in the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. As you well know a soliloquy is a speech delivered by a character to reveal his innermost thoughts and feelings. It is not dialogue in the sense that it is an exchange between two or more characters but it is the way the playwright discloses a character s

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