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DRAMA IN THE MIDDLE AGES
What is drama?
An art form that tells a story through speech and actions of the characters in the story.
It is a multi-layered art which uses words, scene, music and features of actors.
It deals with basic elements of experience such as feelings, desires, conflicts and reconciliations. In short it deals with the ingredients of human life.
Drama is a form of communication and therefore it has got a SENDER (the people who play), a CONTEXT (space and time that change according to the situation), a MESSAGE (what the play wants to tell the audience), a CHANNEL (speech, acting, music), a MODE (story telling) for a PURPOSE (the reason why the play was put on the floor). Of course there is also a RECEIVER (the audience).
MOST IMPORTANT DRAMATIC FORMS
- TRAGEDY = serious play with a sad ending
- COMEDY = light play with a happy ending
- MELODRAMA = a drama full of sensational events and exagereted characters often with a happy anding
DRAMA IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES
SENDERS = singers, dancers, mime acrobats and clowns
CONTEXT = around the country, in the market squares, in the halls of aristocrats
RECEIVERS = people nobility
MESSAGE = story of heroes
PURPOSE = entertain people
MODE = speech, acting, music