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The key takeaways are that drama is a play meant to be performed on stage, and it comes from the Greek word 'dran' which means to do or act. Different types of drama include tragedy, comedy, melodrama, farce, and more.
DRAMA(Introduction and Elements)
21
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Century Literature from the Philippines and the World
Drama
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a play meant to be performed onstage
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from the Greek word ‘dran’ which means to do or to act
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The art of the dramatist is like the art of the architect. A plot has to be built up just as a house is built- story after story; no edifice has any chance of standing unless it has a broad foundation and a solid frame.
”- Brander Matthews“
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
”- Alfred Hitchcock
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The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.
” - Laurence Olivier