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DRAMATURGY
1. Dramatic Art
2. Dramatic Types
3. Dramatic Devices
DRAMATIC ART
EXPOSITION
COMPLICATION (RISING ACTION)
CLIMAX (CRISIS)
SOLUTION OR CATASTROPHE
Typical Elizabethan Drama was divided into 5
Acts
EXPOSITION – Act I
COMPLICATION (Rising Action) – Act II or III
CLIMAX (CRISIS) – Act III
DENOUEMENT (FALLING ACTION) – Act III/IV/V
SOLUTION OR CATASTROPHE – Act V
Soon replaced by 3 Acts
EXPOSITION – ACT I
COMPLICATION
(RISING ACTION) –
ACT II OR III
CLIMAX (CRISIS) –
ACT III
DENOUEMENT (FALLING ACTION) – ACT III/IV/V
SOLUTION OR CATASTROPHE – ACT V
DRAMATIC TYPES
Tragedy
Comedy
THE MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL – T.S. ELIOT
TRAGEDY
Aims at inspiring us with pity and awe
Characters are subjected to an unhappy fate
Greek drama deals with the fate of characters of high
birth and station, kings, princes etc. The fall of a king
or ruin of a great family
Domestic Tragedy (18th century) uses the characters
and incidents of ordinary life as the subject of serious
drama
Atmosphere of tragedy is somber and serious.
CONT…
Classical Tragedy
Romantic Tragedy
CLASSICAL TRAGEDY- BASED ON GREEK
CONVENTIONS
3 UNITIES
Unity of time – the time over which the plot is
spread be the same or approximately the same
Unity of Action
either purely tragic or purely comic (not a mixture of the
two)
no sub-plot or episodes unconnected with the main
theme
Incidents must be logically connected
Unity of Place
confined to one place
Chorus
Body of actors that reported what happened off the
stage; develop and comment on the action of the
play; make moral comments
Canterbury’s women
Comment on the action of Thomas Becket’s murder
Voicing insights on, reflections and conclusions about
time, destiny, life and death
ROMANTIC TRAGEDY
Crudely sensational
Dramatic Irony
Soliloquy and Aside
Stage Directions
DRAMATIC IRONY
Form of contrast; what is being said or done on
the stage has one meaning for the characters
concerned and another for the spectators who
know something the characters do not
Verbal Irony and Irony of Situation
Egs:
IRONY IN EVERYDAY LIFE