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Drama and Tragedy

Drama and Tragedy. I. Background. A. Written to be performed B. Presents action: through actors On a stage Before an audience. I. Background. C. The objective point of view 1. Soliloquy – characters are presented as speaking to themselves; thinking out loud

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Drama and Tragedy

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  1. Drama and Tragedy

  2. I. Background • A. Written to be performed • B. Presents action: • through actors • On a stage • Before an audience

  3. I. Background • C. The objective point of view • 1. Soliloquy – characters are presented as speaking to themselves; thinking out loud • 2. Aside – character turn from the persons they are speaking to and speak directly to the audience • Characters are always presumed to be telling the truth

  4. Drama Terms – pg 1703 • Realistic • Nonrealistic • Tragedy • Comedy • Melodrama • Farce • Romantic • Satiric • Protagonist • Anatagonist • Foil characters • Plot • Suspence • Themes • Didactic • Dramatic Exposition • Chorus • Comic Relief • Denoument • Hamartia • Melodrama • Playwright • Rising Action • Falling Actions

  5. II. Tragedy and Comedy - Greece • C. Parts of the Play • Chorus – • Strophe – • Antistrophe - • Prologue - • Parodos -

  6. III. Aristotle’s Requirements of Tragedy • A. Tragedy – “imitation in dramatic form (on stage)of an action that is serious and complete (plot makes sense),…, which effects a catharsis (emotional release) of emotion” (1304) • 1. Appropriate language • 2. Artistic Unity • 3. Noble personages who perform noble deeds

  7. III. Aristotle’s Requirements of Tragedy • A. • 4. Plot – change in the protagonist’s fortune, usually for the worst • Misfortune is the result of hamartia • Ignorance of some material fact • Sake of the common good

  8. III. Aristotle’s Requirements of Tragedy • B. Tragic hero is a man of noble stature • 1. Kingship as symbol

  9. II. Tragedy and Comedy - Greece • A. Catharis – emotional release at the end of a tragedy • B. Hamartia – a criminal act commited • in ignorance of some material fact • or even for the sake of the greater good

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