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6 days ago · Dramatic literature, the texts of plays that can be read, as distinct from being seen and heard in performance. The term dramatic literature implies a contradiction in that literature originally meant something written and drama meant something performed.
- J.L. Styan
Today, the concept of ‘theatre’ can refer to: (1) a building; (2) an activity (‘going to’ or ‘doing’ theatre); (3) an institution; and, (4) more narrowly, an art form. In the past, theatre was often used as a synonym for drama, a usage that can be still be found in the names of some university departments.
History of Drama 301 Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex stands as one of the world’s most powerful examples of dramatic irony. Aristotle described it as the ideal tragedy. It is the story of a man who, through a combination of fate and his own char-acter, unwittingly kills his own father and marries his mother. When he
To adapt a concept of the art historian, E. H. Gombrich, drama originates in our reactions to the world, and not in the world itself. By this argument th,e changes which an audience perceives o n the
The new history of this theatre therefore reveals a theatre of history: the extent to which performance was central to every aspect of medieval life, and the extent to which many different kinds of texts can yield vital information about how people acted, not only in play but in reality.
- Carol Symes
- 2009
Dramatic literature has a remarkable facility in bringing together elements from other performing and nonperforming arts: design and mime, dance and music, poetry and narrative. It may be that the dramatic impulse itself, the desire to recreate a picture of life for others through impersonation, is at the root of all the arts.
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approach, illustrated by a wealth of practical examples, to guide the reader through this new theatre landscape. He considers these developments in rela-tion to dramatic theory and theatre history, and as an inventive response to the emergence of new technologies and a historical shift from a text-based culture to a new media age of image and ...
