Tuesday, December 7, 2010

drama

Our class shared some thoughts on drama and I wanted to share some points I learned from this class experience.

- comedy lies between satire and romance
- two kinds of comedies are scornful comedy and romantic comedy
- these expose human folly
- comedy and tragedy are both examples of drama
- force and melodrama are oversimplified extremes
- tragedy is a plot that involves a chain of the protagonist to fall into a state of misery
- realistic drama is based off of how believable the play is delivered
- nonrealistic and realistic describe dramatic presentation
Necessary Nonrealistic Conventions:
- audience must believe a room with 30 or less sides actualy has four
- characters with different nationalities all speak the language of the audience
- the actors all face the audience
- plays strive for differing degrees of realism
- drama has 3 additional aspects that serve to add another dimension to the work.
- dramas utilize real life people and the quality of the play relies havily on their performance.

-Angela H

3 comments:

  1. There are many types of literature and you pointed out the differences well. Comendy, romance, drama, etc. there a part of literature.

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  2. its interesting how you said comedy is a form of drama because we usually associate drama with tragedy, despair, and scandal-- not comedy.

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  3. Thanks to you, Angela, I am now more enlighted on what a true drama really is, and what it consists of. Drama isn't just a bunch of words mixed together with some occassional rhyming, it too is a piece of art.

    Shanyce R.

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