wordwhacker | [ENGL 3203] So I finished reading "Marriage a la Mode"...

I thought it was interesting that the play's first few acts are all one-scene - probably a writing strategy to keep the staging simple, since radically changing the sets (according to the documentary we saw in class) would have needed to be minimal. I enojoyed the way the plot flowed back and forth between the comedy/background characters (though I think they ran away with the show, personally) and the romantic/forefront characters. Their stories are so separate at first that it's a bit of a thrill to see them interacting together as the play goes on, probably one of the selling points of the genre.

So thus far, we've read one play, and there were TWO girls dressed up as boys. I think I'm going to keep a tally as the term goes on. What a shame that boys dressing as girls was outlawed, 'cause that masquerade could have been REALLY awesome with two-way crossdressing going on. Y'know, just sayin'.

Will post more once we've gabbed about it in class.