Fred Fred Burger

STEFANIE LETHBRIDGE AND JARMILA MILDORF:

Basics of English Studies:
An introductory course for students of literary studies in English.
Developed at the English departments of the
Universities of Tübingen, Stuttgart and Freiburg

3. Drama
Table of Contents:
3.1. Text and Theatre ...................................................................................90
3.2. Information Flow ..............................................................................91
3.2.1 Amount and Detail of Information ....................................................91
3.2.2. Transmission of Information ..............................................................93
3.2.3. Perspective .............................................................................................94
3.2.3.1. Dramatic Irony ...................................................................................95
SO WHAT? .........................................................................................................96
3.3. Structure ..................................................................................................98
3.3.1. Story and Plot ........................................................................................98
3.3.2. Three Unities .........................................................................................98
3.3.3. Freytag’s Pyramid ..................................................................................99
3.3.4. Open and Closed Drama .................................................................. 101
3.4. Space ..................................................................................................... 102
3.4.1. Word Scenery ..................................................................................... 103
3.4.2. Setting and Characterisation ............................................................. 104
3.4.3. Symbolic Space

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