Drama

Drama is a work of literature or composition which delineates life and human activity by means of presenting various actions and dialogues between a group of characters. Drama is designed to be acted on the stage.Dramatic works differ from other prose works in a number of other prose works in a number of other ways as well. Unlike novels and short stories,plays do not usually have narrators to tell  the audiences what a character is thinking or what happened in the past;the audience knows only what the characters reveal. Drama develops primarily by means of dialogue. The plot and the action of drama unfold on the stage  as the characters interact. Playwright employs various techniques to compensate for the absence of a narrator. He/she may use monologues (extended speeches by one character). A monologue  in which a character expresses private thoughts while alone on the stage is called soliloquy. He / she can also use asides- brief comment by an actor who addresses to the audience but not is heard by the others characters- to reveal the thoughts of the speaker.

 Element of drama

• Theme

•   Character

• Staging :In reading a play rather than witnessing it on stage, we have to imagine what it might look like in performance, projecting in our mind’s eye an image of the setting and the props, as well as the movement, gestures,facial expressions etc.

§  Stage direction

§  Costume

§  Prop ( short for properties)

§  Scenery and lighting

§  Music and sound effect

•  Plot : Is the structure of drama. The traditional arrangement of plot in drama virtually the same as it is in fiction. It follows a pattern of exposition, rising action,crisis(climax),falling action,and resolution.

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