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It is the act of portraying a story in front of an audience.
What is drama
It provides the cadence to the dialogues and adds an element of the theatrical presentation.
What is music in drama?
The sequence of events or actions in a play
What is a plot?
She encourages her husband to murder the king
Who is Lady Macbeth?
This is the difference between printed text of a play and the actual production of the play text on the stage.
What is the difference between theatre and drama?
Of various forms of drama, these are the most popular
What are plays?
It represents when and where the drama unfolds.
What is setting?
It represents the basic idea of the text
What is theme
A dramatic production set in 16th century Venice
What is the 'Merchant of Venice'?
They are used when the dramatist can't express information through merely dialogue
What are monologues and soliloquies?
They have the responsibility of bringing the characters to life.
What are actors
It involves the complete range of aspects of dramatic production from the setting, make-up, costumes to special effects.
What is spectacle?
These stages are initial disturbance or conflict, and finally the resolution of the conflict.
What are the first and last stages in drama?
A famous soliliqouy from Hamlet?
What is “To be, or not to be"?
This character could be the object of sympathy - a main character who lacks conventional heroic qualities
Who is the anti-hero?
It is a written blueprint
What is a script?
The word choices made by the playwright to create tone and mood
What is language in drama?
The way in which the characters are portrayed and developed
What is characterisation?
Is often referred to as 'The Bard'
Who is William Shakespeare
The clarity and coherence of the plot
What gives drama a logical and undisturbed flow?
They are the agents of movement and progression in a drama.
What are characters?
They are provided to the actors to follow and ensure unity of movement on stage.
What are stage directions?
Plays show the written text of the story, delineates.through this
What is dialogue?
His ‘Poetics’ gave a critical analysis of Sophocles’ Greek play, ‘Oedipus Rex
What was Aristotle’s Treatise
They provide a wealth of information about various things from the setting and its elements, characters, and their thoughts, plot and its web of action, etc.
What are descriptions?