Modul English Drama Perfomance

Abstract

Literature, in a broad sense, means compositions that tell stories, dramatize situations, express emotion, and analyze ideas. Since drama or play meets those characteristics perfectly, it becomes one of the literary genres which are very popular among readers. In fact, drama is literature designed for stage or film presentation by people- actors- for the benefit & delights of other people- an audience and in this regard, unlike Fiction, the essence of drama is the development of character and situation through speech & action. In line with that, according to Reaske, drama is a work of literature or a composition which describes life and human activity by means of presenting various actions of- and dialogues between- a group of characters. Drama is furthermore designed for theatrical presentation; that is, although we speak of drama as a literary work or a composition, we must never forget that drama is designed to be acted on the stage. Thus, when we read a play, we have no real grasp of what that play is like unless we at least attempt to imagine how actors on a stage would present the material.