Understanding Drama

Study Drama using Online Video

With this title, you'll enhance your appreciation of plays as works of literature interpreted in dramatic performances. Use our 5 online educational video titles to explore theatre as both a literary form and a performance art. Survey the works of playwrights in all dramatic forms: tragedy, drama, melodrama, comedy, and farce. Examine the elements of dramatic structure: exposition, complication, climax, and resolution. Understand the challenges of writing for the stage and the factors considered in transforming a script into "live" theatre.

Learning Objectives:

• Explore theatre as both a literary form and a performance art, gaining insight to plays as works of literature interpreted in dramatic performances.
• Understand the challenges of writing for the stage and the factors considered in transforming a script into "live" theatre.
• Examine the elements of dramatic structure: exposition, complication, climax, and resolution.
• Survey the works of playwrights in all dramatic forms: tragedy, drama, melodrama, comedy, and farce.

• Literature > Literature As Art > Understanding Drama
• Understanding Drama Part 1 (Runtime: 17:57)
• Understanding Drama Part 2 (Runtime: 15:19)
• Drama of the 20th Century Part 1 (Runtime: 04:23)
• Drama of the 20th Century Part 2 (Runtime: 19:41)
• Drama of the 20th Century Part 3 (Runtime: 14:36)