The Critic and the Audience

I.    THEATRICAL CRITICISM

        A.    What is Criticism?

        B.    Preparation for Criticism

        C.    Critical Criteria

                1.    What is being attempted?

                2.    Have the intentions been achieved?

                3.    Was the attempt worthwhile?

    D.    Descriptive and Prescriptive Criticism

    E.    Fact and Opinion in Criticism

    F.    The Reviewer and the Critic

II.    THE AUDIENCE'S RELATIONSHIP TO CRITICISM: TWO ISSUES

        A.    The Audience's Independent Judgment

        B.    Analysis and Overanaalysis

Identify or Define

1.    Reviewer

2.    Critic

3.    Criticize (two meanings)

4.    George Bernard Shaw

5.    Mel Gussow

6.    Critical criteria

7.    Aristotle

8.    Horace

9.    Descriptive criticism

10.    Prescriptive criticism

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