KINDS OF DRAMA

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The word drama comes from a Greek word which means to do or to act. The word drama simply means action. Drama is mimetic action, action in imitation or representation of human behavior. drama can also be defined as a story enacted onsta!e for a live audience. There are several kinds of drama as follows" 1. Chronicle plays This kind of drama dealt directly with historical scenes and characters. 2. Comedy #omedy is li!hter drama in which the leadin! characters overcome the difficulties which temporarily beset them. There are several kinds of comedy" a. $urles%ues " lampoonin! other works of art, includin! theatre pieces. b. #omedy of manners " comedy which wittily portrays fashionable life. c. #omedy of situation " character and ideas are minor hidden identities, discoveries, reversals, etc. similar to farce, but less unrealistic. d. #omedy of character " eccentricities of the prota!onist &'oli(re) e. Domestic comedy f. *arce !. ,omantic comedy h. -atire " home and hearth. " e+a!!erated comedy marked by ridiculous situations, a horseplay. " stru!!les of love, sympathetic characters, ludicrous devices lovers use. " ridicule of public institutions and fi!ures. The satyrs were mythical half.human, half.!oat fi!ures and actors in these plays wore lar!e phalluses for comic effect. *ew e+amples of these plays survive. They are classified by some authors as tra!icomic, or comedy dramas. i. /inter 3. Domestic !"r#eois Drama Deals with 0ordinary0 people, from everyday life. $. Fantasy play sometimes, but not always, in comic spirit in which the author !ives free rei!n to his fantasy, allowin! thin!s to happen without re!ard to reality. " has been called comedy of menace.

.. /eroic Drama retains parts of tra!edy heroic or noble characters verse &heroic verse) is where the kind of drama !ot its name. 1eroic verse consists of 0couplets0 " 2. 3. e+treme situations but differs from tra!edy because" 2. usually has a happy endin! 3. !enerally optimistic view, even if endin! is sad 0. Mas1"es 'as%ues were sli!ht plays involvin! much sin!in! and dancin! and costumin!. They were usually alle!orical. 2. Medie3al mystery plays This kind of drama dealt with $ible stories and alle!orical mysteries. +. Melodrama 4ike farce, melodrama pays almost no attention to human values, but its ob5ect is to !ive a thrill instead of a lau!h. 4. 'ro5lem 'lay Drama of social criticism discusses social, economic, or political problems by means of a play. 1*. )ra#edy Tra!edy is an imitation of an important and complete action, which has a specific len!th, written in an embellished lan!ua!e, with its separate parts set in order and not randomly, in active and not narrative form, tendin! throu!h pity and fear to the catharsis of passions. 11. )ra#i6Comedy Tras!i.#omedy ends happily, but raises comple+ issues of love, friendship, cowardice, coura!e, and death6 societal norms, morality concealed identities, misinformation, and coincidence, last.minute revelations. two rhymin! lines of iambic pentameter other elevated lan!ua!e