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DRAMA

DRAMA. What's in a name? William Shakespeare. CONCEPT. Drama is a literary composition involving conflict, action crisis and atmosphere designed to be acted by players on a stage before an audience. TYPES OF DRAMA.

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DRAMA

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  1. DRAMA What's in a name? William Shakespeare

  2. CONCEPT Drama is a literary composition involving conflict, action crisis and atmosphere designed to be acted by players on a stage before an audience.

  3. TYPES OF DRAMA • Tragedy -- In general, tragedy involves the ruin of the leading characters. To the Greeks, it meant the destruction of some noble person through fate, To the Elizabethans, it meant in the first place death and in the second place the destruction of some noble person through a flaw in his character. Today it may not involve death so much as a dismal life, Modern tragedy often shows the tragedy not of the strong and noble but of the weak and mean, • Comedy -- is lighter drama in which the leading characters overcome the difficulties which temporarily beset them. • Problem Play -- Drama of social criticism discusses social, economic, or political problems by means of a play.

  4. TYPES OF DRAMA • Farce -- When comedy involves ridiculous or hilarious complications without regard for human values, it becomes farce. • Comedy of Manners -- Comedy which wittily portrays fashionable life. • Fantasy -- A play sometimes, but not always, in comic spirit in which the author gives free reign to his fantasy, allowing things to happen without regard to reality. • Melodrama -- Like farce, melodrama pays almost no attention to human values, but its object is to give a thrill instead of a laugh. Often good entertainment, never any literary value.

  5. FEATURES OF DRAMA • Collaboration/Convention • starting point of theatrical performance • Plot • sequence of events • Audience • Dialogue • Theme • refers to the idea/ thought/moral lesson • Stagecraft • Music/Sound • Character • scene and costumes

  6. SHAKESPEARE PLAYS • Othello, The Moor of Venice • The Taming of the Shrew • Twelfth Night or What You Will • Julius Caesar • Richard III • Macbeth • Midsummer Night’s Dream • Henry V • Romeo and Juliet • Hamlet

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