DRAM 1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: One Man, Two Guvnors, Tragic Hero, Melodrama
27 Nov 2016
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Ii. modern tragedy (example: death of a salesman) https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=gjovvcmmyy8 (beginning in the late 1800s: about ordinary people, not always nobility, written in prose, more like contemporary, realistic speech. Sub-categories: heroic drama has many of the same characteristics of traditional. Tragedy, but ends on an optimistic hopeful note, even if the ending is not happy: domestic drama deals with problems of the family rather than affairs of state. Drama in the us*: melodrama (especially in 18th and 19th centuries) plays upon our fears, especially of impending disaster. But in a melodrama, good is almost always victorious over evil. **this has become the predominant form of serious. In general, it"s designed to amuse the audience/reader. Farce (one man, two guvnors) broad physical humor, pratfalls, fast- moving, mock violence, thrives on exaggeration. Uses wit, irony and exaggeration to expose evil & foolishness. Comedy of manners poking fun at the upper classes. Comedy of ideas using comedy to poke fun at ideas and society.
