Becoming a Playwright

Becoming a Playwright

by Lauren Conroy

Becoming a Playwright

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Abstract

1) This Capstone is culmination of all that I have learned about theater in London and at WPI. I plan to do research on how to write a satirical play, to analyze 2 satires,and to find out what makes satirical plays such a success. Then I will create my own satirical play, a short one act play, with the theme of tourism in London. ts a fun way to tie together theater and my adventures in London with some comic relief. 2) At WPI I took two theater classes in my A and B term with Professor Susan Vick and Professor Barbara McCarthy. In my Introduction to Drama class, I preformed several lines from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing as well as wrote a 5 minuet monologue which was preformed by another student for the class. In my American Drama class, several classmates and I preformed the chaotic dinner scene from August: Osage County for the class. In all, I have very limited experience preforming in and writing play scripts.

3) your major takeaways from the experience. This can and should be very similar to the paragraph you use to summarize this milestone on your Profile Page. It should contain your main Objective, so be sure to clearly state a one-sentence statement that summarizes your main objective for this milestone such as "a comparison of the text of Medieval English choral music to that of the Baroque" or it may be a question such as "to what extent did religion influence Christopher Wren's sense of design?"

Introduction

What makes a play funny? Well this differs from country to country, but overall something that

Section 1: Background

Satire

"Satire" is derived from the Latin word satura meaning "full" which then came to mean "a mixture full of different things"

Categories of Satire

Juvenalian

Juvenal

Menippean

Menippus was a Cynic satirist who satirized other philosophers, who was called σπουδογέλοιος or "the man who jokes about serious things." Very little is know about his life and works because all of it was lost. Sources say that he was a slave who somehow won his freedom and lived in Thebes, Greece.

Satire 1 Analysis

...and so on and so forth...

Section 2: Deliverable

The Types of Tourists Found in London as told by a "Stupid" American Tourist

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In this section, provide your contribution, creative element, assessment, or observation with regard to your background research. This could be a new derivative work based on previous research, or some parallel to other events. In this section, describe the relationship between your background review and your deliverable; make the connection between the two clear.

The Play Script

...use as many subsections or main sections as you need to support the claims for why what you did related to your Background section...

Conclusion

In this section, provide a summary or recap of your work, as well as potential areas of further inquiry (for yourself, future students, or other researchers).

References

HIGHET, G. (1962). Anatomy of Satire. Princeton University Press. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.wpi.edu/stable/j.ctt13x0t9t

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