Drama and Theatre
3.1. dual nature of dramatic texts
3.2. Theatres and stages
drama vs. theatre (performance)
multimediality
primary text vs. secondary text
stage directions
speech tags / speaker designation
Elizabethan public stage / (neutral) platform stage
proscenium stage / apron stage
picture-frame stage
dramatic conventions
3.3. Information management
dramatic irony
scenic presentation vs. narration (showing vs. telling)
point of attack
back story
V-effect, alienation (effect)
metadramatic / -theatrical elements
comic relief
character perspective
discrepancy of awareness
3.4. Dramatic speech
dialogue vs. monologue vs. soliloquy
turn / turn taking / repartee
aside
(direct) audience address (speaking out of character)
3.5. Dramatic characters / characterization
configuration of characters (in individual scenes)
overall constellation of characters (in a
play)
character conception (type vs. individual, flat vs. round characters)
characterization, techniques of characterization (figural vs. authorial,
explicit vs. implicit)
dramatis personae
protagonist vs. antagonist
3.6. Story, plot and action in drama
story vs. plot
action
(main) plot vs. subplot
multiple plot, strands / lines of action
act / scene
chorus
prologue / epilogue
hamartia
catharsis
peripeteia/peripetia/peripety
anagnorisis
catastrophe
deus ex machina
play-within-the-play
dumb show (pantomime, mime)
unity of action
3.7. Dramatic/theatrical space and spatial structure
theatrical space
spatial setting (locale; onstage fictional space)
props, stage properties
wings, flats, backdrop
scenery
word scenery
unity of place
3.8. Time and temporal structure
temporal setting
fictional time vs. (actual) performance time
unity of time
3.9. Dramatic sub-genres
tragedy vs. comedy
mystery play
morality (play)
history (play)
comedy of manners
tragicomedy
melodrama
well-made play
epic drama
theatre of the absurd