Wednesday, December 8, 2021

4.1 History of English Drama

 4.1 History of English Drama

Drama:

1) Drama is a composition in verse or prose to be acted on the stage, in which a story is related by means of dialogue and action and is represented with, accompanying gesture, costume and scenery as in real life.

- Shorter Oxford Dictionary 


2) Drama is a composition designed for performance in the theatre in which actors take the roles of the characters, perform the indicated action and utter the written dialogue

- Glossary of Literary Terms- M.H.Abrams 


The Elements of Drama are-

1. Plot

2. Characterization

3. Dialogue

4. Settings

5. Stage directions

6. Conflict

7. Theme


Types of Drama

1) Comedy

2) Tragedy 

3) Tragic Comedy





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