The Seven Scripts
The Elements of Drama
Types of Drama
Dramatic Structure
Romeo and Juliet
100

This play features the Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Sweeney Todd

100

This drives the events of a play

Plot

100

Romeo and Juliet is one of the most famous examples of this type of play

Tragedy

100

This element provides hints regarding future events

Foreshadowing

100

This clergyman acts as a neutral party within Romeo and Juliet

Friar Lawrence

200

This paranoid king plots to kill Banquo and his son Fleance

Macbeth

200

This emotional auditory element can range from chanting to melody

Music

200

This type of play is more serious than a comedy but not as tragic as a tragedy.

Melodrama

200

This element is the highest emotional moment in a story

Climax


200

This is both a creep and a capital city

Paris

300

One of the storylines in this play features a Mormon couple from Utah

Angels in America

300

The human action in a play

Characters

300

This type of play typically has a happy ending.

Comedy/Farce

300

To be successful, this element must grab the audience's attention to indicate something has begun

Point of Attack

300

"O true apothecary, Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die." was famously said by this character

Romeo

400

This politician destroys his own career in the Reynolds Pamphlet

Hamilton

400

Aristotle deemed this element the least important

Spectacle

400

This type of play is uniquely an American invention

Musical

400

This element is when the plot thickens

Complications

400

Romeo was banished to this town as punishment for killing Tybalt

Mantua

500

This play is set in 1957

Fences

500
According to Aristotle, this element is an idea rich with complexity or dilemma 

Theme

500

This type of play establishes its own kind of logic

Fantasy

500

This name of this element describing the impetus behind a plot is not commonly used today

Inciting Incident

500

These are the only two birds mentioned in Romeo and Juliet (name one of them)

Lark, Nightingale