This document discusses the history and power of drama. It begins with Greek drama, noting its importance and influence on aesthetics, ethics, rhetoric, and logic. It also discusses Sanskrit playwrights and their ability to influence audiences through spectacle. Additionally, it mentions how the Romans recognized drama's ability to persuade audiences, which later groups across the political spectrum utilized. The document also briefly outlines rasas and bhavas in Sanskrit drama before discussing Elizabethan drama, Shakespeare, and French drama. It concludes by mentioning modern drama.

1. The Power
of Drama

2. The history
of drama

3. Introduction

4. Greek drama.

5. The importance
of Greek
drama.

6. Greek drama – aesthetics, ethics,
rhetoric and logic.
Greeks
The power of the Greeks was
in these four things.
Sanskrit
playwrights
But there were other things –
the ability to influence a
community of spectators with a
spectacle.
Romans
The important finding that
performance can be linked to
persuasion – something that
everyone in the political spectrum
from democrats to fascists would
one day use to chilling effect.
Europeans
The malleability and flexibility
of meaning which made the
plays open to interpretation.

7. Sanskrit drama – rasa and bhava
RASAS
• Shringara
• Hāsyam
• Karunyam
• Bhibhatsam
• Bhayanakam
• Viram
• Adbhutam – & Shantam, Vatslaya, Bhakti
BHAVAS

8. Elizabethan drama or Shakespeare.
FRENCH DRAMA
ELIZABETHAN AND
JACOBEAN
TRAGEDIES AND COMEDIES,
DRAMATIC ROMANCES AND
HISTORIES.

9. Modern drama.

10. Thank You