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LITERATURE

GENRES OF LITERATURE
PROSE
FICTION

TRAGEDY

POETRY

TRAGICOMEDY
MELODRAMA
SATIRICAL COMEDY

DRAMA

THE COMEDY OF MANNERS

NON-FICTION
PROSE

COMEDY

ROMANTIC COMEDY
BLACK COMEDY
FARCE

WHAT IS A DRAMA?
A mode of fictional representation through dialogue and
performance.
A type of a play written for theaters, televisions, radios
and films.
A composition in verse or prose presenting a story in
pantomime (a performance in which a story is told without words by using body movements and facial expressions)
or dialogue, containing conflict of characters, particularly
the ones who perform in front of audience on the stage.
The person who writes drama for stage directions is known as
a dramatist or playwright.

ETYMOLOGY OF DRAMA

HISTORY OF DRAMA

FUNCTIONS OF DRAMA
Dramatists can directly speak to their readers or audience as
well as they can receive instant feedback of audience.
Dramatists use their characters as a vehicle to convey their
thoughts, and values.
Since drama uses spoken words and dialogues, thus language of
characters plays a vital role, as it may give clues to their
feelings, personalities, backgrounds, and change in feelings, etc.
In drama the characters live out a story without any comments of
the author, providing the audience a direct presentation of
characters life experiences.

ELEMENTS OF DRAMA

CLASSIFICATION OF DRAMA
I. Tragedy
A. Tragicomedy
B. Melodrama
II. Comedy
A. Satirical Comedy
B. The Comedy of Manners
C. Romantic Comedy
D. Black Comedy
E. Farce

TRAGEDY
Use darker themes such as disaster, pain and death.
Protagonists often have a tragic flawa characteristic
that leads them to their downfall.
Kind of drama that presents a serious subject matter
about human suffering and corresponding terrible
events in a dignified manner.
Examples: Midsummer Nights Dream by William
Shakespeare; Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare;
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

TYPES OF TRAGEDY
TRAGICOMEDY
Contains both tragedy and comedy.
Mostly, the characters are exaggerated and
sometimes there might be a happy ending after a
series of unfortunate events.
It is incorporated with jokes throughout the story just
to lighten the tone.

TYPES OF TRAGEDY
MELODRAMA
An exaggerated drama, which is sensational and
appeals directly to the senses of audience.
The characters are of single dimension and simple,
or may be stereotyped.
Deal with sensational and romantic topics that appeal
to the emotions of the common audience.
Originally, it makes use of melody and music, while
modern melodramas may not contain any music.

COMEDY
Lighter in tone than ordinary writers, and provide a
happy conclusion.
The intention of dramatists in comedies is to make their
audience laugh.
Hence, they use quaint (attractively unusual or old-fashioned) circumstances,
unusual characters and witty remarks.
Example: The Merchant of Venice by William
Shakespeare

TYPES OF COMEDY
SATIRICAL COMEDY
A technique employed by writers to expose and criticize
foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by
using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule.
Intends to improve humanity by criticizing its follies and foibles.

TYPES OF COMEDY
THE COMEDY OF MANNERS
Deals with intrigues and relations of ladies and gentlemen,
living in a sophisticated society.
This form relies upon high comedy, derived from sparkle and
wit of dialogues, violations of social traditions, and good
manners by nonsense characters like jealous husbands,
wives and foppish dandies.

ROMANTIC COMEDY
Involves the theme of love leading to happy conclusion.

TYPES OF COMEDY
BLACK COMEDY
A comic work that makes light of serious, disturbing, and /
or taboo subject matter.

FARCE
Type of a comedy that makes the use of highly exaggerated
and funny situations aimed at entertaining the audience.
Uses elements like physical humor, deliberate absurdity, bawdy
jokes and drunkenness just to make people laugh and we often
see one-dimensional characters in ludicrous situations in
farces.

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REFERENCES
http://literarydevices.net/drama/
https://www.google.com.ph/webhp?sourceid=chromeinstant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=etymology%20of%20drama
http://literarydevices.net/tragedy/
http://literarydevices.net/tragicomedy/
http://literarydevices.net/melodrama/
http://literarydevices.net/comedy/
http://literarydevices.net/satire/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_comedy
http://literarydevices.net/farce/

GROUP 3
Leader:
Gian Searle Alkuino
Presented by:
Wylie Thomas Pe
Members:
Vincent Joshua Go
Ma. Carmina Kho
Lance Victor Lau
Andrea Raine Ong
Fritzi Quizon
Adrian Weslay Tandoc
Paul Andy Yiu
Patricia Anne Yu