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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1918 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII THE MIDDLE OF THE ONE-ACT PLAY The Crucial Moment Once the Beginning of the One-act play is constructed, the next structural problem to be dealt with is that involved in the crucial moment and the series of minor crises which lead up to it, --the Middle. If the play has started well, the essential forces, of whatever nature, have been visualized in more or less concrete action. The audience has been made aware of a dramatic situation, of active and causal relations between character and incident, and is at once somewhat concerned with subsequent dramatic action and with the ultimate outcome. The assembled group is aware of certain causes which have been presented to it, and now it looks forward to the effect. Structurally, the Middle of a One-act play has for its concern a crucial and significant moment and the series of minor crises which lead up to it. The playwright must not fail to conceive the Middle of his play as a structural and organic unit; it is a dramatic problem no less important and no less difficult than that involved in the Beginning or in the End. While the Middle, of need, has a distinctive organic relation to the Beginning and to the End, it is, nevertheless, something of a problem in and of itself. Its chief interest is crisis; its end and aim is crucial situation. "A great play," says William Archer, "consists or ought to consist of a great crisis worked out through a series of minor crises." It is for the one big and vital moment that the Middle exists. Its function is to present this crowning effect in such a way as to justify all that has preceded in the play and to emphasize most strongly and effectively the crucial significance of the play as a whole. The playwright is obliged to conceive this as a dramatic problem in cl...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150522710
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 56
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150522712
  • Publisher Date: 09 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 118 gr


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