Analyzing History and Drama: Key Elements & Subgenres
Analysis of History
The analysis of history includes the characterization of four elements: actions, characters, time, and space. According to their role in the story, characters can be protagonists or secondary. The players perform a series of actions to achieve certain objectives. In those actions, they involve other characters that operate as allies (if they help) or adversaries (if they hinder their goals). The space can be unique or diverse, rural or urban, realistic or fantastic. The time can range from a few hours, even minutes, to many years.
Analysis of Discourse in Speech
The chronological time order of the story can be altered by three types of distortion:
- In medias res: beginning in the midst of action.
- Analepsis: evocation of past times.
- Prolepsis: anticipation of events following the story time.
Narrative relocations:
- “Scenes”: they are equal in time and the time history of discourse.
- “Abstracts”: synthesize the events of history: the time of discourse is less than history.
- “Patterns”: the time of the story stops, is a description or comment: The story time is zero.
- Ellipsis: omitted parts of the story narration time is zero.
The Drama
Drama texts are created to be represented; therefore, it involves talking about the representation of a text in a theater.
Features:
- Develop a story that is submitted directly through words and/or the actions of the characters, without the intervention of a narrator.
- The form of verbal communication is relevant dialogue, and discursive mode is the prose and verse.
- Although theatrical texts can be read, its emission and reception are essentially collective.
Dramatic Subgenres
Subgenres are grouped into major and minor.
Adult Subgenres
Characterized by greater length of its representation and its autonomy.
- Tragedy: Features a tragic conflict; the hero must overcome a destination always adverse. Its basic components are:
- Hubris: Recklessness and arrogance of the hero that, despite warnings, he perseveres and is facing its Destination.
- Pathos: Suffering of the hero that the actor communicates to the public.
- Catharsis: Effect produces the tragedy in the audience to feel and understand the passions of the hero and the terror, the composition.
- Comedy: Approaches the story from a comic perspective in which human imperfections are seen as natural. Its characters are equal beings to actual ones.
- Tragicomedy: Blends elements of tragedy and comedy; its characters belong to the nobility and the people.
Children’s Subgenres
Are shorter and often appeared in the works descandos greater extent.
- Antipasto: Generally short humorous play with popular characters, depicting the beginning or middle of a piece larga.los most famous are those of Miguel de Cervantes.
- Sainete Farce: This name is known from the eighteenth century the appetizer.
Analysis of History
The drama unfolds a story that is a sequence of actions whose base is the conflict that occurs between characters or between them and the world. Characters may be players or side should be considered space and time that can match that of the representation or to have a longer duration.
Analysis of Discourse
At the level of discourse of a dramatic or theatrical text is divided into two sublevels: the speech of the characters and the representation.