Grayson Jackson Who’s Folklore Is It Anyway? I really feel that folklore in its raw form is a history of human kind and humanity in its essence. It has the potential to explain cultures like no other individual can. The open the mind to rituals and paths of thinking that normally wouldn’t be possible unless you was actually living in their specific environment. It also exposes the some of the prejudices that exist among humankind. When people thrive in ignorance towards another set of individuals
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Elements Of Drama The dictionary definition of Drama is the activity of acting‚ or simply a play for theatre‚ the elements however that make up this intricate and diverse art form are far more complex than the concluding definition. The elements of Drama are essentially building blocks that culminate in the finality of this wholesome‚ rigorous activity. A simple way to understand a form as complex as Drama‚ is to look at it as a physical project‚ like building a house. The first and most important
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ELEMENTS OF DRAMA “All the World’s a stage…” William Shakespeare DRAMA Comes from the Greek word ‘dran’ Means ‘To act’ or ‘To do’ The doing/acting makes drama DRAMA… …is a story told in front of an audience. TERMS PLAYWRIGHT- the author of the play PLOT- action of the play SETTING- time and place ACTS- Divisions within a play (much like chapters in a novel) SCENES- smaller parts of an act. ASIDE- lines that are spoken by a character directly to the audience. DRAMATIC
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Benefits of drama English teachers always try to find a way to improve the class and attract the students to the subject which they are studying. Drama is regarded as an effective teaching strategy that will help the teacher to engage the student to the lessons and benefit them in various ways‚ such as helping them learn to communicate their thoughts and look at things from a different perspectives‚ and to how to cooperate and combine their ideas with others. In the classroom‚ drama can bring literature
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Through the centuries‚ the conventions of drama have been altered in many different ways. These conventions are the setting‚ plot‚ characters and staging. The main factor which has been a dominant force during the changes of conventions has been the society. The society present during the time in which a play was written had a direct influence on the plot and characters. This is because drama is defined as a representation of life. Four plays which have been selected from Greek‚ Elizabethan‚
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What is Realism? Realism is the movement toward representing reality as it actually is‚ in art. Realistic drama is an attempt to portray real life on stage‚ a movement away from the conventional melodramas and sentimental comedies of the 1700s. It is expressed in theatre through the use of symbolism‚ character development‚ stage setting and storyline and is exemplified in plays such as Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Anton Chekhov’s The Three Sisters. The arrival of realism was indeed good
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Elements of Drama The Essential elements of drama are present in any play that you see‚ but the ideas have changed slightly over the years. Aristotle was the first to write about these essential elements‚ more than two thousand years ago‚ yet we still discuss his list when talking about what makes the best drama. Aristotle considered six things to be essential to good drama. Plot‚ Character‚ Theme‚ dialogue‚ music/rhythm and spectacle. In modern theater‚ this list has changed slightly
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------------------------------------------------- Restoration literature Restoration literature is the English literature written during the historical period commonly referred to as the English Restoration (1660–1689)‚ which corresponds to the last years of the direct Stuart reign in England‚ Scotland‚ Wales‚ and Ireland. In general‚ the term is used to denote roughly homogeneous styles of literature that center on a celebration of or reaction to the restored court of Charles II. It is a literature
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Q 1.Discuss the plot of Dr.Faustus The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus‚ commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus‚ is a play byChristopher Marlowe‚ based on the German story Faust‚ in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge.Doctor Faustus‚ a well-respected German scholar‚ grows dissatisfied with the limits of traditional forms of knowledge—logic‚ medicine‚ law‚ and religion—and decides that he wants to learn to practice magic. He begins his new
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August Strindberg’s play “The Ghost Sonata” represents an expressionistic approach to drama. Expressionist elements are obvious through Strindberg’s use of distortion of reality‚ “typing” of characters‚ and the use of musical pattern. In the lecture‚ we discussed that one of the elements of expressionistic drama was “extremism and distortion”‚ the lecture also mentioned how expressionistic drama can take the form of a dream to “capture inner feelings” of a character. Strindberg distorts external
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