Please HEL!! The Arabian Nights play by Mary Zimmerman
Play script Analysis
Focus on Shahryar, Scheherazade, Dunyazade, and Wazir
Where are they?; Country, City, place building, room etc.
How do the characters describe the place they are in? Is there any special significance to the place they are in?
When are they?; Day, Month, Year, Century, Season, time of day, etc. Do the characters have anything specific to say about when they are? Is there any special significance to when they are is it a national holiday?
How are they related? What are their roles in life?; include jobs and professions as well as social and economic classes.
What do they think of each other and what do they think of themselves? Under what form of government do they live? What are their attitudes about the form of government under which they live?
What role does religion play on their lives? Which religion? What are their attitudes about their religion?
What are their prevailing attitudes toward sex, family, marriage, and ethical content? Do they live within or rebel against these attitudes?
What happened before the play began?
Who’s the protagonist?
Who’s the antagonist? Other functions of the principle characters
What is the function of each story? Note functions..
What kinds of dialogue do the characters speak? Realistic, naturalistic, literary, poetry or other?
What happens in the play? Describe the principle.
What is the plays theme?