Drama à Hamlet à Tragedy à literally genre à connection with the Renaissance

 

Plays à tragedy, comedy, farce à written to be performed

Theatre à a place where performances are givenà buildings to host play

Text for the theatre à text which is been written to be performed.

 

 

At the beginning drama was performed in the Church. It was concerned with religious topic and was mean to instruct people who went to church on religion episode and mystery.

 

A further step was when performances moved out of the church (XVI century). Religious and dramatic performances were offered during the main festival like Corpus Christi in June. So religious performances at the beginning coincided with Corpus Christi procession which moves around the village. Gradually an evolution was recorded: a new form of drama was organized and it took place outside the church where the most relevant event from the Old and New Testament were represented by the guilds.

 

This kind of plays were called “Mystery plays”. In later time also morality plays developed.

 

Morality à astrazioni di vizi e virtù à sempre istruire.

 

Morality pays developed later (end of the XV century more or less). They were performed by travelling companies. They represented the moral teaches in an open place. The main protagonists were abstract vices and virtues. It was only after the tradition of mystery miracles and moralities that plays moved indoors in the banquet halls of noble people or in the common room of universities (ruled by the church à religion institutions offer education).

 

Drama à literally genre  à to be performed in theatre.

 

Drama has got its own conventions

Feature à stage direction à allestimento del palcoscenico

They tell the director how performed the play.

 

Playwright à drammaturgo:

-          - Dialog

-          - Monologue à speech made by a character to others who don’t reply

-          - Soliloquy

-          - Aside à comments for the audience only

 

To stage à to create a stage

Theatre is made of character.

 

Structure: it depends on the play

-          - One act plays

-          - Generally speaking plays are organized into acts and scenes (tool the playwright can use where time of the performance and time of the scene is the same.

 

-          Language à one of the essential tool

Plot à event à it creates action during the play

The way things are told, the language used by a character à creates emotional effect.