LHE 3253 TEACHING THE LANGUAGE OF DRAMA Assignment 1 Dorothy Ting Siao Wei 153071 Dr. Habsah Bt Hussin Submission date: 19 Oct 2011 THE JEWELS OF THE SHRINE 1. One of the themes of this play is false relationship among family members. Quote the part(s) in the play where you can discern this theme. Throughout the play the theme false relationship among family members is seen. Firstly‚ it is seen in the character of Bassi. Bassi is not related to Okorie at all but is seen to be always around the
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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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confident with myself and I really‚ well ‘sucked’. The current topic what we’re doing in Drama is improv (improvisation) and the topic is quite a hard one at first but the more someone does it the better you get and the easier it gets. My experience with improve is that at the start i didn’t do as well and that did affect my confidence. Working on it over and over again and playing all the improv games really did help me out and I’ve realised that I’m doing almost 100% better at improvisation due to practising
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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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Making the green one red. (II‚ ii‚ 56-61) Analysis: Macbeth says this to himself after murdering Duncan. His guilt causes him to shake at every noise. His hands... Premium Macbeth diction and imagery to create an intensely satisfying and compelling drama. The general setting of Macbeth is tenth and eleventh century Scotland. The play is... Premium Dramatic Techniques In Macbeth of the prophecy. It plants the idea of treason in his mind. It is Macbeth’s ambition that compels him to commit regicide
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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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Sharareh Rafieipour Dr. Agnes Yeow Swee Kim Drama of the Modern Era 2 December. 2012 Modern Drama; The spectacle of language breaking down and the explosion of the hysteria underlying the polite banalities of social intercourse To be modern is to be‚ in many important ways‚ different from anyone who ever lived before. This idea does not mean that human being has undergone a change; man’s nature is always the same‚ but his perception of himself has distorted in a way that is significantly
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