This document summarizes different forms of drama including tragedy, traditional tragedy, modern tragedy, tragicomedy, melodrama, and musicals. Tragedies focus on human suffering and downfall, with traditional tragedies featuring extraordinary heroes facing tragic circumstances. Modern tragedies symbolize important societal issues. Tragicomedies have both tragic and comic elements with a happy ending. Melodramas exaggerate emotions to appeal to audiences. Musicals combine songs, dialogue, dance and more to communicate their story. Examples of each form are also provided.

1. FORMS OF DRAMA

2. Tragedy
 The drama exposes the plight and suffering of
humans to its audience.
 The theme of a tragedy usually rotates around
ruination of dynasty, downfall of
man, emotional betrayals, moral
setback, personal loss, death and denials. A
tragedy when composed and enacted well can
touch your sentiments deeply

3. Traditional Tragedies:
 the hero or heroine of the play is an "extraordinary
character“ who usually gets caught in a series of tragic
circumstances
 The hero then accepts responsibility for his or her
actions and at most times shows a willingness to
suffer
for whatever they deserve.
 In traditional tragedy the language is verse
 In Traditional tragedies there are many morals, and
hold

4. Examples:
 William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Romeo
and Juliet a

5. Modern Tragedies
 characters are those who stand as symbolic
figures for important segments of society
 focuses more on non-verbal expression.
 purpose was to express things through what is
called the "subtext" of a play.
Ex. Lanford Wilson’s Fifth of July
Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House
Arthur Miller's The Crucible

6. Tragicomedy
 a literary genre that blends aspects of
both tragic and comic forms. Most often seen
in dramatic literature
 In a tragicomedy, the action and subject matter
seem to require a tragic ending, but it is
avoided by a reversal which leads to a happy
ending; sometimes the tragicomedy alternates
serious and comic actions throughout the play.

7. Examples
 Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
(1598)
 Giovanni Battista Guarini’ IL Pastor
Fido, published in 1590
 John Fletcher's The Faithful Shepherdess

8. Melodrama
 Melodrama is exaggeration of emotions. It's
marked by surge of emotions, which is a
technique to make the character and the plot
more appealing to the audience.
 A melodrama often fails to derive applause
because excessive display of emotions
becomes sheer monotonous. On the contrary
a superbly executed melodramatic plot can
absorb you completely within it.

9. Examples:
Jacques Rousseau's Pygmalion
Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in the
Underworld
A Tale of Mystery (1802) by Thomas Holcroft
he Castle Spectre (1797) by Matthew Gregory
Lewis
The Woodsman's Hut (1814) by Samuel Arnold
The Broken Sword (1816) by William Dimond.

10. Musical
 a form of theatre that combines songs, spoken
dialogue, acting, and dance.
 story and emotional content of the piece –
humor, pathos, love, anger – are
communicated through the
words, music, movement and technical
aspects of the entertainment as an integrated
whole.

11. Examples:
Show Boat (1927)
Oklahoma! (1943).
West Side Story (1957),
The Fantasticks (1960),
Hair (1967),
A Chorus Line (1975),
Les Misérables (1985),
The Phantom of the Opera (1986),

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