ABSTRACT
To recapitulate the Introduction, the word ‘context’ needs to be treated with care, as the word is used, and used frequently, with two entirely distinct connotations throughout the book: ‘real’ and ‘fictional’. ‘Purpose’ and ‘role’, therefore, are two words which have two entirely different connotations according to which ‘context’ is being invoked. Furthermore, in any dramatic event, within the real context there is always at least one further contextual layer, and sometimes two, the context of the medium and the context of the setting.
