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DRAMA ( TRAGICOMEDY (Tragicomedy is a literary genre that blends aspects…
DRAMA
TRAGICOMEDY
Tragicomedy is a literary genre that blends aspects of both tragic and comic forms. Most often seen in dramatic literature, the term can variously describe either a tragic play which contains enough comic elements to lighten the overall mood or a serious play with a happy ending.
The main purpose of tragicomedy is to describe dual nature of reality where both modes can coexist, perhaps simultaneously
COMEDY
Comedy is an entertainment consisting of jokes intended to make an audience laugh. For ancient Greeks and Romans comedies were a stage-play with a happy ending. William Shakespeare wrote many comedies during his life, some of his comedies are:
Court Comedy, written to be performed at the court of kings and queens.
Comedy of Characters is a play that focuses on the absurdities and eccentricities of the characters rather than plot development.
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Farce is a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations
Satire is the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
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Black Comedy: Humour that makes fun of serious subject matter such as death and religion. Offensive to some, hilarious to others. Requires intelligent scripting.
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High Comedy: a type of comedy characterized by witty dialogue, satire, biting humor, or criticism of life.
Low Comedy: a dramatic or literary form of entertainment with no primary purpose but to create laughter by boasting, boisterous jokes, drunkenness, scolding, fighting, buffoonery and other riotous activity.
TRAGEDY
Tragedy is a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in audiences.
Tragedy begins in ancient Greece, of course, and the first great tragedies were staged as part of a huge festival known as the City Dionysia. Because audiences were so vast, actors wore masks which symbolised their particular character.
DRAMA
Drama is a form of literature acted out by performers. Performers work with the playwright, director, set and lighting designers to stage a show.
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