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Sweeney Todd: an analysis of the dramatic and musical structure
Iede Snoek (8721947)
February 25, 2002
Contents
List of Figures
About
Sweeney Todd
Introduction
Methodology
Synopsis
Prologue
Act I
Act II
The Historical Truth, or how a legend came to be
''Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd...''
The historic facts
How the tale was written
Drama
General Observations
What is Drama?
Communication structures
Epic communication structures
Perspective
Verbal communication
The functions of speech and language
Referential function
Expressive or emotive function
Appellative function
Phatic function
Metalingual function
Poetic function
Verbal communication and Action
Verbal communication and the dramatic figure
Benjamin Barker alias Sweeney Todd
Mrs. Nellie Lovett
Anthony Hope
Johanna
Judge Turpin
The super-imposition of epic communication structures on figure reference
The super-imposition of references to the situation on figure reference
Characterization through language
Explicit self-representation
Implicit self-representation
Monological speech
Monologue and dialogue
Monologue versus monologicity: dialogue versus dialogicity
Monological tendencies in dialogue
Dialogical tendencies in soliloquies
Soliloquy
Soliloquies of action and reflection
Asides
The monological aside: convention versus motivation
The aside
ad spectatores
The dialogical aside
Dialogical speech
Prescriptive versus descriptive poetics of dialogue
Duologue and polylogue
Frequency of interruption and speech length
Temporal relations: succession versus simultaneity
The relationship between dialogues
The syntagmatics of dialogue
How the individual parts relate
How an utterance relates to the previous utterances by the same figure
How an utterance relates to previous utterances by other figures
The rhetoric of dialogue
Logos
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Ethos
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Pathos
Logos
-strategy
Ethos
-strategy
pathos
-strategy
The structure of verbal communication and the musical structure
Introduction
Analyses
The Ballad of Sweeney Todd
The Worst Pies in London
Poor Thing
Pirelli's Miracle Elixir & The Contest
Kiss Me-sequence
Epiphany
Parlor Songs
Conclusion
Bibliography and Sources Used
An overview of the musical numbers
Sweeney Todd the Barber
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Iede Snoek 2002-02-25