1. The concept of drama:

Drama is a comprehensive stage art, which shapes the image of stage art, reveals social contradictions and reflects real life by means of literature, music, dance and art.

2. Drama type:

From the form of expression, drama can be divided into drama, opera, ballet, musical, etc. From the perspective of the volume of works, it can be divided into whole drama and one-act drama;

From the perspective of the times, it can be divided into historical dramas and modern dramas;

Judging from the theme of the plot, drama is divided into tragedy, comedy and drama; From the performance occasion, it can be divided into stage play, radio play and TV play.

3. Three elements of drama:

First, the drama conflict (mainly manifested as the character conflict of the characters in the play);

Second, dramatic language;

The third is the stage description.

4. The basic elements of drama:

Tension and fierce contradictions and conflicts. That is to say, through the concrete stage image, social life is reproduced, typical characters are shaped, and social contradictions are revealed, thus causing strong emotional reflection of the audience and achieving the purpose of aesthetic effect and social education. 5. The language of drama:

Including lines and stage descriptions. Drama language has five characteristics: one is action; The second is the expressive force of personality; The third is lyricism; Fourth, there are subtext; Fifth, catchy and easy to understand.

6, the structure and form of the script:

Stage description, dialogue between characters and lyrics, structural form: scene after scene.

7. Three characteristics of drama literature:

First, it is suitable for stage performance;

Second, there must be dramatic conflicts;

Third, there should be vivid dialogue between characters.

8. Focus on the types of plot themes:

Tragedy is a kind of drama that describes the hero's failure, pain and destruction due to the conflict with the real environment or his own fault. The protagonists of tragedies are mostly positive figures or heroes.

The dramatic conflict of tragedy is shown as follows: under certain historical conditions, the progressive ideal pursued by the positive protagonist or the just cause he is engaged in cannot be realized due to the obstruction of powerful realistic forces, and finally ends in the failure, suffering or destruction of the protagonist; Or although the hero is not a hero or even has serious shortcomings, there are reasonable factors in some hope he wants to realize, but he fails, suffers or is destroyed because of being hit by evil forces.

comedy

Generally, satire and ridicule of ugly and backward phenomena are the main contents to affirm the reality and ideal of beautiful progress. Contradictions and conflicts in comedies include the conflicts between advanced beautiful things and backward ugly things, as well as some conflicts between ugliness and ugliness, and between advanced and advanced things. The essence of comedy is to satirize and deny old things, praise and affirm new things. Such as Moliere's The Hypocrite and Nicolas Nikolai Gogol's An Imperial Envoy.

Drama is also called tragicomedy, because it has both tragic and comic factors. Due to the characteristics of tragedy and comedy, drama can reflect social life in many ways, expanding and enhancing the extensiveness and profundity of drama reflecting life. Such as white-haired girl, Pu, an, etc.