History of Drama Ancient Drama The origins of Western drama can be traced to the celebratory music of 6th-century BC Attica‚ the Greek region centered on Athens. Although accounts of this period are inadequate‚ it appears that the poet Thespis developed a new musical form in which he impersonated a single character and engaged a chorus of singer-dancers in dialogue. As the first composer and soloist in this new form‚ which came to be known as tragedy‚ Thespis can be considered both the first dramatist
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ELEMENTS OF DRAMA A. PLOT: This is the arrangement of events in a play‚ the selection and order of scenes based on a story. A story is different from a plot in a way that a story has full account of events while a plot has a selection of scenes from the story in chronological order for stage presentation. The plot has elements like exposition; this is everything the audience needs to know about a play. Conflict; this is the clash of opposing forces. Climax; this is the point at which one of the
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On Drama Translation Like their contemporary prose translators who were introducing Western fiction to China‚ budding dramatists were enthusiastic about bringing Western plays to the Chinese stage. The first play was staged in Japan from an adaptation of Lin Shu ’s translation of Uncle Tom ’s Cabin. A Chinese student in Japan named Li Shutong adapted the script. The play was put on by members of the Chun Liu (Spring Willow) Drama Society. Their performance marked a complete break from traditional
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The Vocabulary of Drama Subgenres of types Comedy Tragedy Tragicomedy Closet Cycle Miracle Morality Thematic Aspects Deus ex machine Dramatic irony Tragic flaw or hermartia Unities Speeches Monologue Dialogue Soliloquy Asides Chorus Physical/Technical Aspects Props Conventions Stage Directions Other Terms In medias res A term for Horace‚ literally meaning “in the midst of things.” It is applied to the literary technique of opening a story in the middle of the action and
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Braveheart (1995) movie script By Randall Wallace‚ final draft. magistrate It can all end. Right now! Bliss. Peace. Just say it. Cry out. “Mercy!” yes? ...Yes? The crowd can’t hear the magistrate but they know the procedure‚ and they goad Wallace‚ chanting... crowd Mer-cy! Mer-cy! Mer-cy! Wallace’s eyes roll to the magistrate‚ who signals QUIET! Magistrate (booming) The prisoner wishes to say a word! SILENCE. Hamish and Stephen weep‚ whisper‚ pray..
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Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance.[1] The term comes from a Greek word "dran" meaning "action" (Classical Greek: δρᾶμα‚ drama)‚ which is derived from "to do" or "to act" (Classical Greek: δράω‚ draō). The enactment of drama in theatre‚ performed by actors on a stage before an audience‚ presupposes collaborative modes of production and a collective form of reception. The structure of dramatic texts‚ unlike other forms of literature‚ is directly influenced by this collaborative
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any other literary piece. A dramatic text is written in order to be performed on stage. The translator of such a text has therefore to bear in mind that the readers (i.e. the audience in this case) shall not only follow the written form of the script but also and primarily its spoken version. This fact influences the work of a translator to a great extent. He has to chose words that are easily pronounceable by actors and comprehensible to the audience. At the same time he ought to aspire
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Marriage & Family A sexual script consists of expectations of how to behave sexually as a female or male and as a heterosexual‚ lesbian‚ or gay male. (Cohen‚ DeVault‚ & Strong 2008 p. 191) We use sexual scripts to direct us on how to organize‚ interpret and react to different sexual situations and emotions significantly. Our original sexual scripts starts as traditional‚ they are formed by what we learn from our parents‚ other adolescents or through watching television. Our sexual identities
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A sexual script is defined in our text as a set of expectations of how one is to behave sexually as a female or male and as a lesbian‚ or gay male. A script is a guideline on how we carryout our roles and in this report specifically our sexual roles. The foundations of our sexual scripts are formed in adolescence and are modified as we gain experience throughout our lives. Those that provide information on sexual scripts include parents‚ peers‚ and the media. When our sexual scripts are called
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Benefits of drama English teachers always try to find a way to improve the class and attract the students to the subject which they are studying. Drama is regarded as an effective teaching strategy that will help the teacher to engage the student to the lessons and benefit them in various ways‚ such as helping them learn to communicate their thoughts and look at things from a different perspectives‚ and to how to cooperate and combine their ideas with others. In the classroom‚ drama can bring literature
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