Introduction to Stagecraft
Dramady, situation comedy, farce, theater of the absurd, melodrama, courtroom drama and satire are a sampling of the types of drama.
Elizabethan Drama
The Globe theatre, which put on many of Shakespeare's plays, opened in 1599. The Elizabethan period, when Elizabeth I ruled England from 1558 to 1603, saw people going to plays in large numbers.Modern Drama
Still before the senile Greeks were performing the works of Aeschylus and Sophocles, there was acting. Devout rituals and folk celebrations across the world have elements of the theatrical. They are the deep roots of drama.
Features
Aristotle broke drama down into six elements: character, ideas, language, action (plot), music, and spectacle. Aristotle also wrote about catharsis, the purging of emotion, as part of drama.
Identification
Drama is often represented by masks of tragedy and comedy. Tragedy and comedy share many qualities. Both involve conflict, but the way that conflict is resolved is different. Traditionally, tragedy ends in the death of the main character or characters, while comedy ends with celebration or marriage.
Types
There are many sub-genres of tragedy and comedy, and sometimes the two are mixed together.Acting began in antique Greece. The confab "play" has its roots in Greek paragraph doctrine "to behave" and "to act." A play is a collaborative advance, and the read of play involves the read of acting, directing, writing, melody and Craft. Narration, psych, and all the more religion again retain a chip in perceptive acting.
History
Modern drama can be divided into two main categories---realism and expressionism. Realism concentrates on the details of daily life. Expressionism is more concerned with feelings and uses innovative techniques to express the interior lives of characters.
