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DRAMA IN THE MIDDLE AGES
What is Drama?
An art form that tells a story truth speech and actions of the characters in the story.
It is a multy-layered part, art which uses scenic music and the features of actors.
It deals with basic elements of experience such as basic feelings, desires, conflicts and reconciliation. 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 played), CONTEXT (space and time that change according to the situation), a MESSAGE (what the play wants to tell the audience), a CHANNEL (speech, acting and music), a MODE (story telling) for a PURPOSE (the reason why the play was put on the floor). Of course then is also a RECEIVER (the audience).
MOST IMPORTANT DRAMATIC FORM
- § TRAGEDIE (serious play with a sad ending)
- § COMMEDIE (light play with a happy ending)
- § MELODRAMA (a drama full of sensational event and exaggerated characters often with a happy ending)
DRAMA IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES
- § SENDERS (singers, dancers, mime acrobats and clowns)
The play around the country, in the market square, in the hall of nobility
- § RECEIVERS (people, nobility)
- § MESSAGE (story oh heroes)
- § PURPOSE (entertained people)
- § MODE
- § CHANNEL (speech, acting and music)