1. Drama

2. Use a combo of setting, stage direction, and dialogue to tell
Drama
Plays
Use a combo of setting, stage direction, and dialogue to tell

3. Tragedy

4. characters experience reversals of fortune usually for the worse.
Catastrophe and suffering especially the protagonist
Usually contains lots of death

5. Comedy

6. characters experience reversals of fortune usually for the better
Works out happily in the end.
May be romantic
tone of tolerance and geniality
Satiric works-a darker vision of human nature; ridicules human folly

7. Tragicomedy

8. Does not adhere strictly to the structure of tragedy.
Serious play with qualities of comedy.
Arouses thought with laughter.

9. Farce

10. A light dramatic work
Highly improbable plot situations
Exaggerated characters
Slapstick events
the situation provides the humor rather than clever plot or absurd characters

11. Dramatic Irony

12. See the word drama inside Dramatic Irony?
Happens when the reader or audience knows more than the characters know.
EX: You can see the ax murder walking into the bathroom where the girl is showering, but she doesn’t know he’s there yet.

13. Dialogue

14. Easy to recognize in a play.
Usually the name of the character followed by something and then what is said.
For example:
FOXLOVE: And should you refuse to marry him?
ROMEO
It’s easy for someone to joke about scars if they’ve never been cut.

15. Stage direction

16. Helps with understanding actions that can’t be inferred
Directions written for a specific element to happen including entrances and movements
Descriptions about setting and characters such as important info needed to play the character
Helps with understanding actions that can’t be inferred
Different font, parenthesis, or spaced away from current dialogue
For the actor, not the audience.
Example:
ROMEO
It’s easy for someone to joke about scars if they’ve never been cut.
JULIET enters on the balcony.
But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

18. Stage left-right side of the stage
Stage right-left side of the stage
Stage center-center of the stage
Upstage-back of the stage
Downstage-front of the stage
Off stage-waiting just off the stage

19. Monologue

20. A lengthy speech
By one character
Can be done when alone or with others on stage
Either spoken to self, audience, or another character.
Helps with motive, attitude, and tone

21. Soliloquy

22. Speech to the audience
Said while alone on stage
Generally expresses inner thoughts
Consists of relatively brief break in the action
Helps with motive, attitude, and tone

23. Aside

24. Brief speech
Direct address to the audience
Done while other characters are done on stage
Only the audience knows the information
Helps with motive, attitude, and tone

25. Other Elements

26. Scenery:
Curtains, backgrounds, platforms
Used to help create the environment (setting) of the play
Props
Items outside of clothing articles and scenery
Can be used to help create setting or characterization
Costumes
Clothing items worn by actors
Can depend on the direction the director has in mind