Other questions:
- Why is the subtitle "based on nothing"?
- Who was Thomas Paine?Why is the character called "Thom Pain"?
- Who is Childe Harold?
- Watch this clip from Michael C. Hall. How does it affect your understanding of the play?
- How is the audience supposed to interact w/ the actor?
- What genre is this play? Comedy? Drama? Something else?
- You'll probably read a play in ENGL 102. How will reading this play prepare you for that experience?
- What questions do you still have?
1. the subtitle is called based on nothing because the narrator casually speaks whats on his mind.
ReplyDelete2. Tomas pain could have been the narrator.
3. the little boy.
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5.the audience is suppose to play along with the actor and his comments to them as if they were having an actual conversation with him.
6.the genre of this play is comedy and drama.
7. yes because it will give me an idea of how to better understand how
The subtitle "based on nothing" is to represent the cynical tone of the speech with a satire of sitcoms even tho this was a head of it's time with audience laughing at a joke because they where told to
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