PART 3 活学活用

针对该部分学习内容的相关练习:

1.What is drama? Explain it through your own understanding.

2.Explain the word “theatre”.

3.Drama shares some connections with other forms of literature. Think about how does drama relate to fiction and what are the differences between fiction and drama as performance?

4.What are the important elements of drama?

References:

1.Drama is a form of literature to be read on page like poetry and fiction, but in most cases it is also meant to be performed on stage. A playwright always has a keen awareness of performance. The English word “drama” derives from the Greek term dran, meaning “to do” or “to act.” A dramatist undertakes the task of writing a play and presents it as a blueprint for acting in the theatre.

2.The English word “theatre” comes from the ancient Greek term teatron, which meant “seeing place,” referring to the hillside area where Greek citizens gathered to watch plays or sacrifices at annual religious festivals. Now it applies to any space where a performance is staged before an audience. It also refers to various aspects of a stage production, especially direction, acting, and designing.

3.Like fiction, drama is concerned with plot and character, however, a fiction needs to be narrated rather than being acted out; Drama is more public because it is written to be performed and witnessed; The dramatic effects of drama are stage effects; The nature of the presentation of a play determines that once a performance begins, the point of view cannot be changed. We are sitting in the same seat in the same theatre during an entire performance of a play, looking always in the same direction at the same stage; The plots of drama should unfold more quickly.

4.Plot, character, thought, diction, music and spectacle.