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• Drama is a composition in prose from that presents a story entirely told in dialogue
• Drama is a story enacted on stage for a live audience
• Play

  A literary genre written by a playwright, usually consisting of dialogues between characters intended for a theatrical performance rather just reading
• Drama


  • It is more collaborative than play, in the sense that it deals with the stage, the hall, the costumes, the music, the synchronization of music and dialogue, and such things to bring the written play to a theatrical performance
• Forms of Drama


  • Tragedy
  • Tragicomedy
  • Melodrama
  • Farce
  • Musical
  • Opera
  • Pantomime
• Tragedy

  A type of drama that shows the downfall and destruction of a noble or outstanding person, traditionally one who possesses a character weakness called a tragic flaw
• Tragicomedy

  What you get when you blend aspects of both tragedy and comedy, as when you give a happy ending to a serious play or when you put comedic elements in a tragedy to lighten the play's mood
• Melodrama


  A sensational dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and exciting events intended to appeal to the emotions
• Farce


  A play that brings laughter for the sake of laughter, usually making use grossly embellished events and characters
• Musical


  In musical theater, the story is told not only through dialogue and acting but through music and dance
• Opera


  Western opera is a dramatic art form, which arose during the Renaissance in an attempt to revive the classical Greek drama tradition in which both music and theatre were combined
• Pantomime

  These stories follow in the tradition of fables and folktales. Usually there is a lesson learned, and with some help from the audience, the hero / heroine saves the day
• According to length

  • Full-length or Evening length Play
  • One-act Play
  • Ten-minute Play
• Full-length or Evening length Play

  It runs from 70 or 80 minutes to about two hours, enough to be an evening on it's own but not very long enough to push your audience to suicide
• One-act Play


  A 30- minute running time (best for competitions and has a better chance of inclusion in an evening bill with a pair of other one-acts)
• Ten-minute Play


  It was popularized by the Actors Theatre of Louisville contest. It is not a sketch or an extended joke, but a very short play with a beginning, a middle, and an end. It is limited to ten minutes, and on paper, it's actually ten pages or less
• Intertextuality


  Refers to all interactions between text through illusions, quotes, and references
• Intertextuality


  • "'Cause you were Romeo, I was a scarlet letter, And my daddy said, 'Stay away from Juliet'" - Taylo's Swifts "Love Story"
• Deliberate Intertextuality


  Borrowing from texts through qoutes, allusions, and references
• Deliberate Intertextuality


  • "He was lying so obviously; you could almost see his nose."
• Deliberate Intertextuality


  • "Amy wished that she could just wave a wand, and Carl would go Wingardium Leviosa out of the door."
• Latent Intertextuality


  References and influences occur incidently
• Latent Intertextuality


  • T.H. White's The Sword in the Stone, C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
• Anytime that you are reminded of another piece of literature (arts, stories, movies, poems) while reading or watching another text, then it is intertextuality
• Elements of Drama

  • Literary
  • Technical
  • Performance
• Literary Elements


  • Script
  • Plot
  • Character
  • Story
  • Organization
• Technical Elements


  • Scenery
  • Costumes
  • Props
  • Sound and Music
  • Make-up
• Performance Elements


  • Acting
  • Speaking
  • Non-verbal
  • Expression
• Protagonist


  The main character, usually the "good" guy in the story. The story mainly focuses on this character
• Deuteragonist


  The second important character in the story; the first is, of course, protagonist
• Antagonist


  Usually portrayed as the "bad" guy, or the person that goes against the protagonist and what he's trying to do
• Tritagonist


  The character who follows the protagonist and deuteragonist in order of importance
• Isaiah 41:10 (NIV): '"So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."'