DRAMA

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DRAMA
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Definition of Drama

• Greek dranto do
• ARISTOTLE-- defined drama as mimesis
• imitation of human actions

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TRAGEDY

• Aristotelian Definition
• An imitation of an action that is
• serious, complete and of a certain
• magnitude-embellished with every
• kind of artistic ornament in the
• form of drama not narrative,
• through pity and fear effecting a
• proper purgation of these emotions
• CATHARSIS
• VICARIOUS

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Tragic Figure

• Noble character
• Possesses a tragic flaw
• error in judgment, frailty
• which brings about his/her own downfall

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Revenge Tragedy

• Call for revenge
• Pretended insanity
• Ghosts
• Delay in revenge
• Suicide
• Play within a play
• Gruesome ending

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Terms

• Dialogue
• Soliloquy
• delivered by one character who is
• alone on the stageintended to reveal
• inner thoughts

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• Aside
• character on stage speaks not to
• another character, but more to him/
• herself and therefore the audience

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• Dramatic Irony
• the audience knows more than
• the characters on stage.

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Freytags Pyramid
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Important terms

• Crisisalso known as climax
• moment of greatest tension or
• uncertainty
• Peripeteiamoment of reversalthe time
• the protagonists fortunes changes
• irrecoverably for the worse

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• Anagnorisis- after the reversal the tragic
• figure realizes the error and
• verbalizes this recognition
• Catastophe-ending disasteroften spirals
• outward from the tragic figure
• effect others
• Catharsisemotional purgation