DRAM 1310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Neutral Nation, Tragicomedy, Epic Theatre
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Elements of drama and dramatic structure (ch 12) Genre category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style or subject matter. Comedy looks to the continuation of life, rather than its finality life goes on. Tragedy explores the notion that no matter how great our human achievement, life is finite. Has its origins in a very simple conflicts of good and evil, externalize cause of our problems. Give me the rent money, i don"t have the rent money. ***make a show with a lot of neutral people, see development*** Split to ordinary world & special world. Explores human awareness through an existential philosophical position; creates an interplay between the serious and the comic sides of a situation that results in an unstable landscape. Absolute truth is elusive, in fact impossible to ascertain. We"re all going to die anyway, we are all useless. Response to realism"s failure to completely reveal human condition.
