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    Main Features To Analyze Drama: Luvita Indriani M. Zainul Asna M. Syahrul Nurbayti Naelasanada Gustin

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    This document outlines the main features to analyze in drama, including: 1) It defines drama as a serious story that elicits emotion through the display of human relationships and phases of life through different characters. 2) It discusses the primary and secondary texts of drama as well as the dramatis personae. 3) It identifies several features to analyze in drama, such as information flow, structure, space, time, characters, types of utterances, stages, and sub-genres of drama.

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    This document outlines the main features to analyze in drama, including: 1) It defines drama as a serious story that elicits emotion through the display of human relationships and phases of life through different characters. 2) It discusses the primary and secondary texts of drama as well as the dramatis personae. 3) It identifies several features to analyze in drama, such as information flow, structure, space, time, characters, types of utterances, stages, and sub-genres of drama.

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    This document outlines the main features to analyze in drama, including: 1) It defines drama as a serious story that elicits emotion through the display of human relationships and phases of life through different characters. 2) It discusses the primary and secondary texts of drama as well as the dramatis personae. 3) It identifies several features to analyze in drama, such as information flow, structure, space, time, characters, types of utterances, stages, and sub-genres of drama.

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    Main Features to Analyze Drama

    Luvita Indriani
    M. Zainul Asna
    M. Syahrul
    Nurbayti Naelasanada Gustin
    DEFINITION

    • Drama is a serious, intense, or well plotted


    story that elicits emotion.
    • Drama is a display of emotions, a
    representation of relationships and the
    portrayal of the different phases of human
    life. It sketches different personalities and
    represents a wide variety of emotions
    through the different characters it portrays.
    TEXT AND THEATRE

    • Primary Text
    • Secondary Text
    • Dramatis Personae
    FEATURES

    • information flow
    • overall structure
    • space
    • time
    • characters
    • types of utterance in drama
    • types of stage
    • dramatic sub-genres
    Information Flow

    (1) Amount and Detail of Information


    (2) Transmission of Information
    (3) Perspective
    (4) Dramatic Irony
    Structure
    (1) Story and plot (2) Three Unities (3) Freytag’s Pyramid
    Space

    (1) Word Scenery


    (2) Setting and Characterisation
    (3) Symbolic Space
    Time

    (1) Presentation of Temporal Frames


    (2) Story Time and Discourse Time
    Characters
    (1) Major and Minor Characters
    (2) Character Complexity
    (3) Character and Genre Conventions
    (4) Character Constellations
    (5) Techniques of Characterisation
    authorial figural

    explicit descriptions of characters in author commentary characters’ descriptions of and comments on other
    or stage directions; telling names characters; also self-characterisation

    implicit correspondences and contrasts; indirectly physical appearance, gesture and facial
    characterising names expressions (body language); masks and
    costumes; stage props, setting; behaviour; voice;
    language (style, register, dialect, etc.); topics one
    discusses
    Types of Utterence in Drama

    (1) Monologue, Dialogue, Soliloquy


    (2) Asides
    (3) Turn Allocation, Stichomythia, Repartee
    (4) The Significance of Wordplay in Drama
    Types of Stage

    (1) Greek Classicism


    (2) The Middle Ages
    (3) Renaissance England
    (4) Restoration Period
    (5) Modern Times
    Dramatic Sub-Genres

    COMEDY TRAGEDY
    a. Romantic Comedy
    a. Senecan Tragedy
    b. Satiric Comedy
    b. Revenge Tragedy
    c. Comedy of Manners
    c. Domestic/Bourgeois Tragedy
    d. Farce
    d. Tragicomedy
    e. Comedy of Humours
    f. Melodrama
    THANK YOU

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