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Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television. [1] Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's Poetics (c. 335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory.
The science fiction drama film is often the story of a protagonist (and their allies) facing something "unknown" that has the potential to change the future of humanity; this unknown may be represented by a villain with incomprehensible powers, a creature we do not understand, or a scientific scenario that threatens to change the world; the ...
In television, a dramatization is "the preparation of a television drama from a work which was not previously in dramatic form, for example a prose narrative". [2] The form is often used in television commercials depicting the benefits of using an advertised product, "because dramatization is a form particularly well suited to television". [3]
A play is a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than mere reading.The creator of a play is known as a playwright.
Dramaturgy may also be broadly defined as "adapting a story to actable form." Dramaturgy gives a performance work foundation and structure . Often the dramaturge's strategy is to manipulate a narrative to reflect the current Zeitgeist through cross-cultural signs, theater- and film-historical references to genre, ideology, questions of gender ...
A tragedy is a genre of drama based on human suffering and, mainly, the terrible or sorrowful events that befall a main character or cast of characters. [1] Traditionally, the intention of tragedy is to invoke an accompanying catharsis, or a "pain [that] awakens pleasure,” for the audience.
A story structure, narrative structure, or dramatic structure (also known as a dramaturgical structure) is the structure of a dramatic work such as a book, play, or film. There are different kinds of narrative structures worldwide, which have been hypothesized by critics, writers, and scholars over time.
The use of drama as a metaphor in order to understand human behavior and motivation forms the basis for this theory. According to West, [11] there are three basic reasons that drama is a useful metaphor to the idea of Dramatism. Drama indicates a wide range of human experience.