Introduction+to+Drama+-+Antigone

On October 29, we went to see Georgia Shakespeare Festival's production of [|Angtigone]. The refrain for the play, "What a piece of work is man" (which is sung at the beginning and end), is actually a quote from Hamlet. You can listen to part of the song by clicking [|here].


 * //Hamlet//****, Act 2, scene 2**

HAMLET I have of late—but wherefore I know not—lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o’erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me: no, nor woman neither.

The Freitag pyramid is the traditional understanding of dramatic structure, which we will be applying to //Antigone, Romeo and Juliet,// and other dramas we read or watch this year.
 * Dramatic Structure: The Freitag Pyramid**

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