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Its Elements
DRAMA
Drama is a
composition in prose
form that presents a
story entirely told in
dialogue and action
and written with the
intention of its
eventual performance
before an audience.
Drama has a two-fold nature:
LITERATURE and THEATRE.
THEATRE
Setting identifies the time and place in which
the events occur. It consists of the historical
period, the moment, day and season in which
the incidents take place. It also includes the
sceneries in the performance which are usually
found in the preliminary descriptions.
Characters are the people in the play and thus
considered as the principal material in a drama.
Character Aspects
Physical Social
Physical identifies peripheral Social embraces all aspects
facts such as age, sexual that can be gleaned from the
category, size, race and color. characters world or
It deals with external environment as exemplified by
attributes which may be the economic status,
envisaged from the description occupation or trade, creed,
of the playwright or deduced familial affiliation of the
from what the characters say characters.
or what other characters
verbalize about his
appearance.
Character Aspects
Psychological Moral
Psychological discloses the Moral discloses the decisions
inner mechanism of the mind of of the characters, either
the character as exemplified by socially acceptable or not,
his habitual responses, exposing their intentions, thus
attitudes, longings, purposes, projecting what is upright or
likes and dislikes. It is not.
considered as the most
indispensable level of character
categorization because routines
and emotions, thoughts, attitude
and behavior enable the readers
to know the character
intrinsically.
Plot lays out the series of events that form the
entirety of the play. It serves as a structural
framework which brings the events to a
cohesive form and sense.
Types of Plot
Natural Plot Episodic Plot
Natural Plot is a Episodic Plot each episode
chronological sequence of independently comprises a
events arrangement where setting, climax, and resolution;
actions continuously take therefore, a full story in itself
place as an end result of the is formed.
previous action
Beginning
Middle
Ending
Beginning identifies information about the place, such
as geographical location, social, cultural, political background or
period when the event took place.
Exposition