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  • DRAMA
    stories in verse or prose form that are meant to be performed onstage in front of an audience
  • Authors who write dramas are called dramatists or playwrights.
  • Elements of drama are similar to those of fiction except that drama is written in a form called script, in which the lines are written in dialogues with stage directions
  • ®     Instead of chapters, dramas are divided into acts and scenes.
  • ®     It serves to persuade because it can be used as propaganda.
  • I.                 TRAGEDY
    central character has a tragic flaw, making this character a tragic hero.
  • Hamlet by William Shakespeare is an example of Tragedy
  • I.                 COMEDY
    aims to make the audience laugh
    lighthearted
    often take place in unusual circumstances, and it is typical for characters in these plays to utter witty remarks
  • I.                 MUSICAL DRAMA
    Characters dance and sing.
  • Drama
    Stories in verse or prose form that are meant to be performed onstage in front of an audience
  • Dramatists/Playwrights
    Authors who write dramas
  • Elements of drama
    • Similar to those of fiction except that drama is written in a form called script, in which the lines are written in dialogues with stage directions
    • Instead of chapters, dramas are divided into acts and scenes
  • Drama
    Serves to persuade because it can be used as propaganda
  • Types of drama
    • Tragedy
    • Comedy
    • Musical drama
    • Farce
    • Melodrama
  • Tragedy
    • Central character has a tragic flaw, making this character a tragic hero
    • He or she possesses a characteristic that can lead to his or her downfall
  • Comedy
    • Aims to make the audience laugh
    • Lighthearted
    • Often take place in unusual circumstances, and it is typical for characters in these plays to utter witty remarks
  • Musical drama
    • Characters dance and sing
    • Various themes are presented, from serious to comedic
  • Farce
    • A nonsensical drama that employs slapstick humor
    • Mainly comedic
    • Characterized by absurd conditions or situations and ardent actions
  • Melodrama
    • Characterized by the characters' exaggerated emotions in various situations
  • Dialogue
    • Refers to the characters' speech and is considered the lifeblood of drama
    • The audience get to understand the story, not only by the characters' actions but also by their speech
  • One-act play
    • A play that has only one act, as distinct from plays that occur over several acts
    • May consist of one or more scenes
    • The 20-40 minute play has emerged as a popular subgenre of the one-act play, especially in writing competitions
  • Monologue
    A long speech given by one character that can be heard by or directed to other characters who are also onstage
  • Soliloquy
    The speech of a character who is alone onstage portrayed as though the character is talking to himself or herself, or to the audience, and the words cannot be heard by the other characters
  • Aside
    A remark that a character makes that is meant only for the audience to hear, other characters onstage do not hear asides
  • Elements of drama
    • Direction
    • Acting
    • Editing
    • Set design
    • Cinematography
    • Production design
    • Costume design
    • Make-up
    • Properties
    • Light/Light effects
    • Sound effects
    • Visual effects
    • Theme song
    • Musical score
    • Story
  • Modes/medium of drama
    • Stage play
    • Radio play
    • Television play
    • Movie/Film
  • Jose Rizal: 'Ang hindi marunong lumingon sa pinanggalingan ay hindi makararating sa paroroonan.'
  • Lualhati Bautista: 'Huwag mong ituring na bato ang kanyang mga salita.'
  • Bob Ong: 'Hindi kita iiwan. Hindi kailanman.'
  • Conventions of oral literature
    • Common experiences of the community as subject matter
    • Communal authorship
    • Formulaic repetitions
    • Stereotyping of characters
    • Regular rhythmic and musical devices
  • Periods of Philippine literature
    • Pre-colonial period
    • Spanish period
  • Mythological age
    The period when our ancestors told stories about the creation of human beings and the world, natural phenomena, and deities and spirits
  • Heroic age
    • Ordinary mortals and cultural heroes became the chief subject matter in this period
    • Epics became a popular genre
    • Chanted during important events in the community to inspire people
    • Also performed to remind the community of their ideals and values
  • Folktales
    • Traditional stories that had humans, animals, and even plants as characters
    • Fictional tales that have been modified through successive retellings before they were finally recorded and written down
  • Baybayin
    • The pre-colonial Filipino writing system
    • Derived from Kavi, a Javanese (Indonesian) script
    • A syllabic script, which means each character stands for a syllable and is made up of a combination of basic shapes
    • Early Filipinos wrote on palm leaves or bamboo using knives as pens and sap from plants and trees as ink
    • The ancient Tagalog script had 17 basic syllables composed of three vowels and fourteen consonants
  • Baybayin vowels
    • a
    • e/i
    • o/u
  • Baybayin consonants
    • ba
    • ka
    • da/ra
    • ga
    • ha
    • la
    • ma
    • na
    • nga
    • pa
    • sa
    • ta
    • wa
    • ya
  • March 16, 1521 - when the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan arrived in the Philippine soil
  • Homonhon - an island in Eastern Samar where Magellan landed
  • Limasawa - where the first Catholic mass in the country was celebrated