Drama (Unit :- 2)

A.     Type of drama:-  Elements of Drama:- Character, Dialogue, Plot, Setting , Stage.

Drama:- drama is also a type of a play written for theater, television, radio, and film.

In simple words drama is a composition in verse or prose presenting a story in pantomime or dialogue. It contains conflict of characters, particularly the ones who perform in front of audience on the stage.

Elements of drama

Character:-  A drama is a piece of writing , which is artistically presented with dialogues. A drama is attractive, impact and real as it presents characters along with a natural and credible aspects. It is very similar to a short story as it also comprises characters, plot, setting as well as symbolism. The qualities that makes somebody something different from other people or things; the nature of somebody. A character (sometimes known as a fictional character) is a person or other being in a narrative ( such as a novel, play, television series, film or videos games) the character may be entirely fictional or based  on a real-life person, in which case the distinction of a “fictional” versus “real” character may be made.

Derived from the ancient Greek Xapaktnp , the English word dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749 from this, the scene of “ a part played by an actor” developed. Character, particularly when enacted by an actor in the theatre or cinema, involves “the illusion of being a human person”.

In literature, characters guide readers through their stories, helping them to understand plots and ponder themes. Since the end of the 18^th century, the phrase “ in character” has been used to described in effective impersonation be an actor. Since the 19^th century, the art of creating characters as practiced by actors or writers has been called characterization. A character who stands as a representative of a particular class or group of people is known as type. Types include both stock characters and those that are more fully individualized. The characters in Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler (1891) and August Strindberg’s Miss Julie (1888), for example, are the representative of specific position in the social relations of class and gender, such that the conflicts between the characters reveal ideological conflicts. The study of characters requires an analysis of its relations with all of the other characters in the work. The individual states a character is defined through the network of oppositions (Proairetic, Pragmatic, Linguistic, proxemic) that is forms with other characters. The relation between characters and the action of the story shifts historically, often miming shifts in society and its ideas about human individuality, self- determination, and the social order.

Dailogue:-  is conversation between two or more people in a narrative work or dialogue is a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people, and a literary and theatrical form that depicts such an exchange.

As a narrative, philosophical or didactic dialogue as developed by Plato.

Plot:- the series of events which form the story of a novel, film, or plot is the chain of connected events that make up narrative. It refers to what actually occurs in the story and is one of storytelling’s major pillars. It literarily used to describe the events that make up a story. These events relate to each other in a pattern or a sequence. Plot is known as the foundation of a novel or story, around which the characters and setting are built. It is meant to organize information and events in a logical manner. When writing the plot of a piece of literature, the author has to be careful that it doesn’t dominate the other parts of the story.

Setting:-  setting is an environment or surrounding in which an event or story takes place. It may provide particular information about placement and timing, such as New York , America, in the year 1820. Setting could be simply descriptive, like a lonely cottage on a mountain. Social conditions, historical time, geographical locations, weather, immediate surroundings, and timing are all different aspects of setting. There are three major components to setting: social environment, place, and time. Moreover, setting could be an actual region, or it could be a work of the author’s imagination.

Stage:- in the theater and performing arts, the stage is a designated space for the performance of productions.  The stage serves as a space for actors or performers and a focal point for the members of the audience. As an architectural feature, the stage may consist of a platform or series of platforms.