Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers, 5th Edition

Index

A

abstract words, 235, 241

accents, 259

action

character, 173, 176–80

falling action, 145–6

habitual action, 172, 173, 196

inciting action, 148, 166–7

and plot, 303–4

rising action, 145–6

time of, 43–4. See also climaxes; external action; internal action; three unities

action analysis, xxi–xxiv, 1–2, 37–8, 232–3

background story, 95

chain of external events, 4–7, 28–30, 38, 198–9, 232, 329

chain of internal events, 13–16, 31–3, 39, 199–200, 232, 336–7

character, 203, 233

counter through-action, 27, 37, 40, 201, 232, 341–2

events, 2–4

Hamletmachine, 329–42

idea, 232

mise-en-scène, 370

nonrealistic plays, 27–37

progression and structure, 171, 232

reviewing the facts, 7–8, 30, 38–9, 199, 232, 329–35

score of the role, 198

seed, 8–13, 30–