C. DRAMA/PLAYS
DRAMA/PLAY is a work that is written for
purpose of being performed on the stage. When written on script is referred to
as Play.
FEATURES OF DRAMA OR PLAY
i.
A drama involves the use of dialogue which is
conversation between the characters.
ii.
There is stage
direction when written on the script.
Stage direction-refers to the words
incorporated in the play with the intention of making reader imagine the actual
performance on the stage.
iii.
It is arranged on scene and acts.
Scene is defined as the
smallest unity the play it normally has one major event.
Act is the major division
of the play made of scene.
iv.
It is also involve use of curtains that is heavy
materials that screen the stage from the audience.
TYPES
OF DRAMA OR PLAY
A drama is categorised into four major parts, such
as:-
a.
Comedy
b.
Tragedy
c.
Tragic-comedy
d.
Melo-drama
i.
COMEDY is the type of drama
mainly meant to cause laughter. It is normally for entertainment.
ii.
TRAGEDY is the type of drama
that involves a Hero or Heroine who experiences suffering and finally dies or gets
punished.
Features of tragedy drama;
a.
In tragedy Hero or Heroine faces dangers.
b.
It presented in the manner the reader or viewer pits
the protagonist.
c.
In traditional drama, tragedy characters involved were
of noble families. Eg; King and Queen. But now days involve even ordinally
people.
iii.
TRAGIC_COMEDY is the type of drama
that involves both features of tragedy and comedy. It has aspect that appeal to
laughter and those which appeal to sadness.
iv.
MELO-DRAMA is the type of drama
for entertainment which accompanied by music. The musical accompaniment serves
fortify the emotion tone of various things.
