Posted by kristi Vang (67.174.158.14) on June 20, 2005 at 9:33:12 p.m.:
In Reply to: Re: Unit 2 "A Jury..." and Trifles Question 1 posted by Mike Gonzales on June 20, 2005 at 9:18:52 p.m.:
I appreciated reading your response on the online bulletin board and I wish to thank you because I feel that you have a great understanding of the terminology. I wounder how creativity comes into play when interpreting and critiquing literary works. Everyone has a different interpretation of the essential meaning of a story, and no one is wrong. The audience, not the director, are the ultimate recipient of the feelings to being invoked. The playwright is simply the medium.
>Drama and short stories differ greatly in how they establish setting. Short fiction writers will usually begin by briefly describe the setting. Some will continue to develop it well into the body of the story. Drama differs because it’s meant to be performed. The playwright will introduce the scene in a very detailed manner so that if the play is performed, the director will understand it. Usually the playwright will give a detailed account of scene before any dialog is spoken. Since the scene is already set, the playwright will not develop the setting further in the body of the story. The scene still does leave some room for the director to inject some of his or her own ideas on how the setting should look like, just as the reader of short stories will leave room for imagination.