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Case Study: As you watch your play, keep in mind the following questions, which will guide your reflection and which you should endeavor to answer in your essay. The first three questions are some basic critical questions developed by Julius Novick, a well-renowned American theater critic. The other questions are more specific to your experience in this class. All of these plays will have been mentioned at some point during the semester, and you will need to refer to the Module notes, and possibly your textbook, to answer finish the essay, but you will not and should not use any other outside sources.
Question 1: What is this play or this production trying to DO? Or, another way of looking at it, what do you think the playwright is trying to SAY, or make happen, in this play?
Question 2: Did this play or production or playwright accomplish this goal?
Question 3: Was this goal worth achieving in the first place?
Question 4: What is this play's Genre, and how do you know? What can you cite from the Modules that tells you this?
Question 5: What do you know about the History of this play, or the era of Theater or World History that created it? Where do you see this History onstage in the production?
Question 6: How is the production you are watching Different from how it might have been done when it was first written and performed? And how is it possibly similar?
Question 7: What is your overall opinion of what you see and hear?