THE DRAMATIC IMAGINATION
VS
THE THEATRICAL IMAGINATION

The Definition of Drama
Plot
Initiating Human Action
The Human Factor
The Action Factor
Dramatic Conflict
        internal conflict
        external conflict
Conflict is intensified because
        limited amount of time
        imited amount of space
        equal forces
        motivation or incentive
How the characters survive

The Origin of the Dramatic Impulse
The Drama of Thought
Aristotle
Ritual Drama
Drama as Art

The Power of Drama
The Literal Metaphor

Drama/Other Performing Arts
Drama
Musicals
European Musical Diversions
American Originals
Big-Book Musical
Concept Musicals

Genre and Point of View
Genre
-standards
-POV (therefore the genre)

Tragedy and Serious drama
Traditional Tragedy

Modern Tragedy

Heroic Drama

Romantic Drama

Melodrama

Domestic Drama or Bourgeois Drama
 

Comedy

Black Comedy

Farce

Bedroom Farce

Satire

Burlesque/Vaudeville

Comedy of Ideas

Comedy of Manners

Domestic comedy

Commedia dell Arte

Situation Comedy
 

Mixed Genres
 

 
Plays for the Page
Are plays literature?

Plays for the Stage
The Flexibility of Dramatic Art
 

The Dramatic Imagination At Work
That is The Choice
-Hamlet
-Quarto