Close reading unseen drama: stagecraft, dialogue and performance

What this note covers

1. Read the page as a score for performance
2. Blocking, proxemics and the politics of space
3. Dialogue is action, contest and evasion
4. Dramatic irony and unequal knowledge
5. Sound, silence, props and offstage worlds
6. Build a cumulative close-reading response

6 sections · 10 key terms & formulas · 6 common mistakes