DRAM 1310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Tragicomedy, Dramaturge, Gullibility
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In this chapter, we consider another dimension of playwriting. The way drama views human existence or divides human experience. Genre the division of dramas into categories such as tragedy and comedy as they represent different kinds of human experience. Refers to a specific division, or classification, of drama. Turn to writers whose work involves analyzing plays and performers. Writers, dramaturg and critic must understand the nature of the theatrical communication on stage and the elements of dramatic construction and classification. Categorization is tool for exploration, not end itself. Categorization of dramas into genres offer way to examine shifting viewpoint on human experience and comparable shift in audience"s response to the drama. What makes study of genre worthwhile is the insight that each particular for of drama contributes to our understanding of the relationship between human beings and the world or the universe. Studying genre questions about human existence. Two different ways of understanding the fundamental rhythms of human life cycle.
