Character. Prompts. The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations. The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations is a descriptive list which was created by Georges Polti to categorize every dramatic situation that might occur in a story or performance.
To do this Polti analyzed classical Greek texts, plus classical and contemporaneous French works. He also analyzed a handful of non-French authors. Reassigned Time 2.0. December 15, 2011 by Dr.
Crazy So I spent the day reading the writing of my graduate students, and I’d estimate that over the past two weeks I’ve probably read somewhere around 700 pages of student writing of all levels (freshmen through gen ed through majors through grad students), and I probably have about two hundred more pages of student writing to go before I can call it a day on this semester. (And no, I’m not exaggerating. Welcome to the life of an English professor. Tone Terms.doc.