Drama and Comedy

Drama

Stage directions Plot Sub-plot Setting

A description or The sequence of A part of a

instruction in the events told in a plot of the

text of a play which story, plot is also story of a

explains how the known as narrative book or play Time

play should be structure. There are which Place

performed. usually considered to develops

be five elements in a saparately

plot line: exposition from the

or background main story

information, rising

action (that which

complicates the

story), climax or

crisis, falling action,

and resolution.

Drama

Characters

Main Minor - Hero the main male



character in a book or film

who is usually good.

- Heroine play’s main

the

female character.

- Antagonist The antagonist



in a work of fiction is the

character who opposes the

hero, or protagonist. The

antagonist, when there is one,

provides the story's conflict.

Dramatic techniques

Dialogue Soliloquy Monologue Asides

is a conversational is a reflective A speech or Riding aside is riding

passage in a monologue given composition side saddle with

narrative or play by a character presenting both legs on one

used to advance the when he or she is the words or side of the horse.

plot or develop the alone on the thoughts of When a riders sits

characters. stage. a single with one leg on each

character. side of the horse

they are riding

astride.

Dialogue

 It creates the action;

 It contributes to theme;

 It gives information about the past and can

foreshadow subsequent events;

 It may be built to cause specific reactions in the

audience. Soliloquy

 The character’s thoughts about a specific

problem;

 The character’s plans for the future;

 The character’s feelings and reactions;

 The character’s explanation of what happens

between scenes. Asides

 To reveal the nature of the speaker;

 To draw the attention of the audience to the

importance of what has been said;

 To explain developments;

 To create humour by introducing the

unexpected. Comedy

is intentionally funny either in its characters or its action

Features

 It deals with ordinary characters set in everyday situations

in an amusing way. It begins with misfortunes but does not

end with death of the protagonist.

 The dramatist is the mouthpiece of the vices and follies of

the society he belong to.

 Specific sets of comic characters are developed: they do not

evolve in the course of the play and their names sometimes

reveal their nature.

 The plots are mainly based on love.