Assefa Moltote A Thesis Submitted to the Department of Curriculum & Addis Ababa University ...

127 Pages·2017·36.17 MB·English

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Addis Ababa University
School of Graduate Studies
Dramatic Structure in Plays of Tsegaye Gebre Medhin
By
Fantahun Engda
Institute of Language Studies
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Based on their genres, aesthetic and social values, plays
may be classified as epic, absurd , cruelty, morality,
historical, religious , revolutionary and the like. structurally
also, two approaches - the conventional or Aristotelian and
unconventional , for instance, Brechtian methods are most often
excercised by various practitioners.
The pur pose of this thesis is to see the appropriate
application of both the conventional and unconventional
dramatic structures in some of the select ed plays of Tsegaye.
In the introduct ory part of this work, the general
assessment of other researchers' analysis on the plays of the
same author is reviewed . The next theoretical chapter discusses
the rules and principles of both the conventional and Brechtian
epic playwriting .
In this section, the nature of Fr eytag's Pyramid,
including its components - the exposition, compl ication and
r esolution parts is elaborated. Furthermore, the necessities
of the divis ions of a play into scenes and acts are indicated.
Added t o the convent i onal type of presentation, the unique
char act eristic feature of Brechtian epic theatre is also
defined in this chapter .
I n the light of t he theoretical the second
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six of the plays of the dramatist.
Last of all , the concluding part attempts to put all the
findings of this research in a more condensed way. What is more
is that this study has been supported by interviews which are
held with the playwright and two senior directors who directed
several of his plays. All the discussions with the three
interviwees, have separately been recorded by t ape-recorder.