Form: Drama

Form: Drama

              About drama:

              Drama presents fact or fiction in a form that could be acted/ performed before an audience. Its full qualities are only revealed in representation on the stage. The Drama is considered to be a composite art. In which the author, the actor and the stage manager all combined to produce the total effects.

       A drama is expected to deliver its whole massage within a few hours. And therefore it has to exercise great economy in the handling of the plot and delineation of character. So all unnecessary and superfluous details must be omitted.

              The dramatist has to work with a number of (many, several) collaborators like the audience, the electrician and many other. He has to considered costs and mechanical and physical limitation. In drama the dramatist does not addressed his audience directly he speaks through his character.

       The structure of Play:

              All drama deals with a problem or a conflict. In tragedy the theme is dark and serious whereas in comedy it is light and gay with happy ending. As for the structure there has to be exposition (to explain the circumstances or situation from with the action is to take place) complication.

1)           A Climax- when it text a turn for the better or worse.

2)           A Deriouement- A denouement known as the falling action (which unravels the complication)

3)           A solution- A solution for comedy and catastrophe for tragedy.

          The typical Elizabethan drama was divided into five acts, each comprising a number of scenes. The stage was simple used as a platform, the scenes followed in quick succession scene. The five act poetic drama went out of favour in course of time. Modern dramatist considered three acts to be sufficient. It the play was little too short a one act piece of a light nature was perform as  a “curtain raiser” changing social and economic conditions called performances to be shorter, and in the English theatre of today the program is usually limited to a single play lasting less than three hours.

   Realism and Romance:

          Romance means imagination and struggle. Drama is a representation of life. All art is directly coloured by the Artist’s personality. Drama does not promise to be entirely faithful to  fact. It is a portrait, a version not a reproduction. In other words it is the dramatist’s criticism of life”. A great play is reproduction of imagination working upon experience and observation, whatever they may be, principle of realism in drama is to hold, as it were, the mirror up to nature. Realism tends to fade with the conditions it represents because it is true them only. The romantic drama deals with what is common to all times modern realistic drama as produce many works then achieve great success in their own day, yet when they have been revived after a period of only twenty years. They have seems merely dull and outmoded.

Farce and Comedy:

          Farce is an exaggerated from of comedy. Its aim is to provoke heartily laughter to or eat it all the resources of absurd character, situations and dialogue are employed. It is a lively caricature, not a represent action of things as they are. It belongs to the realm of nonsense in which the characters are free from every day cares and restraints.

          “Farce is a comic dramatic piece that uses highly improbable situation, stereotyped character disguise and mistakes identity and violent horseplay.”

   The term also refers to the class or form of drama made up of such compositions.

   It is a Latin word meaning “To Stuff” and the first faeces were simply comic interludes inserted (stuffed) into the main play. There are farcical element in Shakespeare’s ‘Amid Summer Night’s Dream,’ ‘Marry Wives of Windsor’ as a sleprat sepret into vogue towards the close of the 17^th century.  

          Farces are often highly incomprehensible as far as plot is concerned because of the large number of plat twist an random events that often occur, but viewers (audience, spectator) are encourage not to try to follow the plot. In order to avoid becoming confused farce is also characterized by physical humour. The use of deliberate absurdity or nonsense and broadly stylish performance. Farces have been written for the stage and film.

   Farce is generally regarded as intellectually and aesthetically inferior to comedy. In its crude implausible plots, but it has been sustained by its popularity in performance.