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The Accidental Death of an Anarchist Drama Coursework 3: FORM AND STRUCTURE Dario Fo's 'The Accidental Death of an Anarchist' consists of two Acts. The play follows the typical structure of an exposition, development, climax, and denoument. Fo's exposition happens with a direct address, in which Bertozzo introduces himself and the concerns around an anarchist suspect 'falling to his death from the fourth-floor window during interrogation at the police station where the play is set. The description allows the audience prior knowledge to the circumstances that the play deals with, without giving away the whole story. This awareness of events helps Fo communicate his intensions and some prior knowledge is needed for a number of the messages in the play to be really appreciated. Fo's use of dramatic irony and his satirical stance of events, works well as he is relying on the audience to having some familiarity with the context of...

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