What is drama?
Drama is a literary work of art which involving conflict,
action crisis and atmosphere designed to be acted by players on a stage before
an audience. This definition may be applied to motion picture drama as well as
to the traditional stage. Besides, drama is a unique tool to explore and
express human feeling. In addition, it is also the essential form of behaviour
in all cultures; it is a fundamental human activity.
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Types of drama
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Tragedy
Tragedy involves the ruin, weakness or devastation
of the leading characters. In Greeks tradition, the tragedy meant as the
destruction of the noble person based on fate. Nowadays, modern tragedy just
showing that it is not of the strong and noble but of the weak and mean. The example
of tragedy is "Othello, the Moor of Venice" by William Shakespeare.
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Melodrama
Melodrama is a kind of drama that has the
musical elements as the accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scene.
For example, in the scene of Beethoven’s “Fidelio”, the orchestra plays the
musical elements as the actor speaks in the grave digging scene.
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Center. Drama. n.d. 5 October 2013.
<http://drb.lifestreamcenter.net/Lessons/Drama.htm>.
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