The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations
Georges Polti
The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations is a descriptive list which was created by Georges Polti to categorize every dramatic situation that might occur in a story or performance. To do this Polti analyzed classical Greek texts, plus classical and contemporaneous French works. He also analyzed a handful of non-French authors. In his introduction, Polti claims to be continuing the work of Carlo Gozzi, who also identified 36 situations.
Each situation is stated, then followed by the necessary elements for each situation, given a brief description and an application in a classic literary text is offered as a 'live' example.
- Supplication
- Deliverance
- Crime pursued by vengeance
- Vengeance taken for kin upon kin
- Pursuit
- Disaster
- Falling prey to cruelty/misfortune
- Revolt
- Daring enterprise
- Abduction
- The enigma
- Obtaining
- Enmity of kin
- Rivalry of kin
- Murderous adultery
- Madness
- Fatal imprudence
- Involuntary crimes of love
- Slaying of kin unrecognized
- Self-sacrifice for an ideal
- Self-sacrifice for kin
- All sacrificed for passion
- Necessity of sacrificing loved ones
- Rivalry of superior vs. inferior
- Adultery
- Crimes of love
- Discovery of the dishonour of a loved one
- Obstacles to love
- An enemy loved
- Ambition
- Conflict with a god
- Mistaken jealousy
- Erroneous judgment
- Remorse
- Recovery of a lost one
- Loss of loved ones
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Année:
1924
Editeur::
James Knapp Reeve
Langue:
english
Pages:
190
ISBN 10:
1585093734
ISBN 13:
9781585093731
Fichier:
PDF, 7.61 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1924