The document discusses different perspectives on drama - Frank Capra's view that drama is when the audience cries rather than the actors, definitions of drama involving action and performance, and examples of dramatic works from different contexts like Waiting for Godot and My Mother Said I Never Should. It also covers analyzing Shakespearean dramas, adapting plots to modern times, and the idea that Shakespeare intended his works to be performed rather than just read.

2. “I made mistakes in drama.
I thought drama was when actors cried.
But drama is when the audience cries.”
Frank Capra
Italian American film director.

3. DRAMA
 The word comes from the Greek meaning, which is
again derived from the verb which means “To Do”,
or “To Act”.
 Drama is also often combined with Dance and
Music.
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 Samuel Becket’s Waiting For Godot (Indian
Context).
 Charlotte Keatley’s My Mother Said I Never Should
(Western Context).

4. MY MOTHER SAID I SHOULD NEVER
 A collaboration with teaching and the dramatic
theatre.
 Workshops and special classes.
 The history of 1980s and the costumes of the age.
 Students talked with the wardrobe supervisor.
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 Review of the 3 Acts.
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 Caryl Churchill Top Girls.

5. SHAKESPEAREAN DRAMAS
 Analysis of the then society, European history.
 Group Discussions.
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 Write down parallel stories or shorten them
innovatively as Mary and Charles Lamb did.
 Audio Visual assignments.
 Applying the past plot lines to the present (Politics).
 Real psychological analysis.
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 Hidden talents are brought to the forefront.
 End result - new jobs are created.

6. HAMLET – THE WORLDWIDE TOUR
 for an actor, should not exist too much on the page, but
has to be lives and breathed, more ever he says that, “I
enjoy reading him, but seeing him is more enjoyable.”
(Ganesh 4).
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 The writer of the article Deepa Ganesh concludes by
saying, that he has echoed what several scholars
believe -- theatre productions have had a greater
creative dialogue with Shakespeare than academics and
critics.
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 A final thought on this topic is that Shakespeare, or
other dramatists had truly written for the stage than for
the part of reading it.
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Finally the statement of Frank Capra will true when the
audience feel the pulse of the actors.

7. Works Cited
Ganesh, Deepa. A Hamlet, and three more. The
Hindu 6 Nov. 2015: 4. Print.
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Keatley, Charlotte. My Mother Said I Never Should.
Watford: Watford Palace Theatre, 1994.
Print.
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Wikipedia contributors. "Drama." Wikipedia, The
Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free
Encyclopedia, 26 Nov. 2015. Web. 27 Nov. 2015.
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Thank You
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