LING 510 Quiz: 9293592-Elements-of-Drama.pdf

• School: Yale University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 510
• Professor: Kazimierz Wielki University

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Pal: perspectives in american literature: a research and reference guide. An ongoing online project paul p. reuben | email: its4pr@charter. net | Appendix h: elements of drama - a brief introduction. Drama has one characteristic peculiar to itself - it is written primarily to be performed, not read. It is a presentation of action: through actors (the impact is direct and immediate), on a stage (a captive audience), and, before an audience (suggesting a communal experience). Of the four major points of view, the dramatist is limited to only one - the objective or dramatic. The playwright cannot directly comment on the action or the character and cannot directly enter the minds of characters and tell us what is going on there. B. protagonist and antagonist - the protagonist is the central character, sympathetic or unsympathetic. Stock character is a stereotyped character (a mad scientist, the absent-minded professor, the cruel mother-in-law); a.