Elements of Drama Guided Notes

  1. The word drama comes from the Greek verb dran, which means “______.” The Doing/______is what makes drama.
  2. The earliest known plays…
  3. Were written around the ______century B.C.
  4. Produced for festivals to honor Dionysus, the god of ______and ______
  5. Drama…
  6. ...is a story told in front of an ______.
  7. The Globe Theater
  8. Where many of Shakespeare’s plays were performed in ______, England
  9. Open during ______months
  10. ______performances only
  11. Open-Air; O-shaped
  12. ______by cannonball landing on the roof during a performance
  13. “______” paid one cent to sand in the pit
  14. ______paid more for seats in galleries
  15. ______sat in chairs on the side of the stage
  16. Dramatic Structure:
  17. Like the plot of a story, the plot of a play involves characters who face a problem or ______.
  18. Elements of Drama:
  19. ______: the author of a play
  20. ______: the people who perform
  21. ______: the units of action
  22. ______: smaller parts of the acts
  23. Actors:
  24. During Shakespeare’s time, ______were not allowed to act
  25. All female roles were played by ______(usually by young boys)
  26. Dramatic Speech:
  27. The characters’ speech may take on any of the following forms:

a)______: conversations of characters on stage

b)______: long speech given by one character to the others

c)______: speech by a character alone onstage to himself, herself, or to the audience

d)______: remarks made to the audience or to one character; the other characters onstage do not hear an aside

  1. Stages Directions:
  2. Found in brackets [ ]
  3. Describes ______and how characters ______
  4. From the viewpoint of the actor looking at the audience:

a)______, Center Stage

b)______, Stage Left

c)______, Stage Right

d)______, Upstage or Read

e)______, Downstage or Front

  1. There are two [______] types of plays:
  2. ______and ______
  3. Tragedy:
  4. A tragedy is a play that ends ______
  5. Most classic Greek tragedies deal with serious, universal ______such as…
  6. Right and wrong
  7. Justice and ______
  8. Life and ______
  9. Tragedies put human limitations against the larger forces of ______
  10. The protagonist of most classical tragedies is a ______. This hero:
  11. Is ______and in many ways ______
  12. Has a ______, a personal failing, that leads to a tragic end
  13. Comedy:
  14. A comedy is a play that ends ______. The plot usually centers on a ______conflict.
  15. Boy ______girl → Boy ______girl → Boy ______girl
  16. The main characters in a comedy could be anyone
  17. Comic complications always occur ______the conflict is ______.
  18. In most cases, the play ends with a ______...or two...or three.
  19. Language of Shakespeare
  20. ______is a rhythm of accented and unaccented syllables which are organized into patterns, called ______. (Using the same meter throughout a play helped actors memorize their lines)
  21. Shakespeare used ______as his meter
  22. Iambic Pentameter:
  23. ______(Iamb) - a pair of syllables containing short/long or unstressed/stressed syllables.
  24. ______= five
  25. So Iambic pentameter is a line that contains ____ iambs (10 syllables in an unstressed-- ______pattern).

a)Makes a sound like daDUMdaDUMdaDUMdaDUMdaDUM

  1. Examples:

a)when _____ do______the ______that ______the ______

b)to ______the ______, and ______the _____zel ______

  1. Shakespeare - Modern English
  2. Write one example/quote from the slide down the in the space below: