The form and structure of 'Greek' is one of many factors in which Berkoff has decided to put across his intentions to an audience.
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Gemma Singh GREEK By STEVEN BERKOFF FORM AND STRUCTURE The form and structure of 'Greek' is one of many factors in which Berkoff has decided to put across his intentions to an audience. Form can be defined as a shaping principal either in its widest sense (where it is overlapped with genre) or in its specific sense, where it was a discoverable organising principal within a work. Structure can be defined as the action of building. The word carries the sense of the process of building, organisation (scenes, episodes etc.) 'Greek' is considered to be an epic play (spanning a lot of time and distance - as it manages to cover 10 years), structured as series of episodes taking the form of a story in its own right. The play consists of 2 Acts. Act 1 is comprised of five scenes and Act 2 is comprised of four scenes. 'Greek' has a combination of short and long...


