{"id":174,"date":"2008-10-30T02:02:18","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T06:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/10\/30\/exposition-and-forwards\/"},"modified":"2008-10-30T02:02:18","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T06:02:18","slug":"exposition-and-forwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/10\/30\/exposition-and-forwards\/","title":{"rendered":"Exposition and Forwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by Amy Szerlong<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Group 3 (Erica, Sam and Amy) met during class period to begin discussing our analysis, and we ended up comparing our notes from <em>Henry IV<\/em> on these topics to help clarify. Here&#8217;s what we came up with as a culmination of handouts, our notes, and examples given in class.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Exposition<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>when\/where is it delivered and how?<\/li>\n<li>who knows what? who doesn&#8217;t?<\/li>\n<li>what is it I need to know to move on?<\/li>\n<li>what do we NEED to know in order to advance?<\/li>\n<li>Example: In Act I Scene II of <em>Henry IV<\/em>, the audience learns the following: Falstaff is older and a drunkard. Hal foots the bill for his idiot and thieving friends.<\/li>\n<li>So, exposition is basic facts about relationships, characters and the environment&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Forwards<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>what makes the play advance?<\/li>\n<li>arouses audience interest in things to come<\/li>\n<li>causes us to ask questions<\/li>\n<li>again, moves play<em> forward<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Shakespeare dominated by forwards, (good plays and titles are dominated by forwards&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>Examples: In <em>Henry IV<\/em> &#8211; Robbery (tricking Falstaff), Mortimer&#8217;s plot to go against the king, initial line of play (exposition development&#8230;) war = who will win?, Hotspur called in front of king<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is as far as we got today. We are aware that these aren&#8217;t the most extensive series of notes, but since none of us have had the opportunity to finish reading <em>Measure for Measure<\/em>, we disbanded early to squeeze in some extra reading time! Additions are welcome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Amy Szerlong Group 3 (Erica, Sam and Amy) met during class period to begin discussing our analysis, and we ended up comparing our notes from Henry IV on these topics to help clarify. Here&#8217;s what we came up with as a culmination of handouts, our notes, and examples given in class. Exposition when\/where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/10\/30\/exposition-and-forwards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Exposition and Forwards<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":625,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[824],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ball-group-three"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/625"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}