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WHAT IS DRAMA?
The rituals, dances, and customs which are still performed with
urgency and vitality by the different cultural communities that
comprise about five percent of the countrys population are held or
performed, together or separately, on the occasions of a persons
birth, baptism, circumcision, initial menstruation, courtship, wedding,
sickness, and death; or for the celebration of tribal activities, like
hunting, fishing, rice planting and harvesting, and going to war.
II. SPANISH COLONIZATION PERIOD
(1565 1863)
THE SPANISH COLONIAL TRADITION
A dramatic art
A visual art
An auditory art
A physically produced
art
A continuous art
A spectator art
A DRAMATIC ART
IT HAS AN
EMOTIONAL
IMPACT OR
FORCE.
A VISUAL ART
Dialogue is intended to
be spoken out loud.
Theartof arranging
sounds in time so as to
produce a continuous,
unified, and evocative
composition, as through
melody, harmony,
A PHYSICALLY PRODUCED ART
Sets have to be
constructed on
stage. Thus, unlike
other genres,
personal contact is
established.
One of the indoor set at the studio.
A CONTINUOUS ART
AN
INDIVIDUAL
DRAMATIC
WORK
CLASSICAL PLAYS
ARE SUALLY IN
VERSE FORM,
AND ARE
USUALLY EITHER
TRAGEDIES OR
COMEDIES.
A TRAGEDY
HAVE ELIMINATED
THE FACTOR OF
GREAT AND NOBLE
HERO, PREFERRING
TO DEAL WITH THE
FATE OF ORDINARY
PERSONS.
COMEDY