Creative Writing - Dramatic Writing

Creative Writing - Dramatic Writing

Introduction

In the seventeenth century, there was a meaningful development of European drama, especially in England, Spain, France and Italy. The theater companies remained mostly itinerant, but in the late sixteenth century began to settle. The performances of fans have stopped their former importance, is the figure of a professional actor, but the economic and social situation of the people in theater remained very precarious. If, in Italy, the actor enjoyed some consideration, in England the Puritan tradition was always hostile to those who participated in an art so dissolute, while the Catholic Church France refused the sacraments to the comedians. The involvement of women in varied settings: in Italy and Spain were admired actresses, but in England and Germany the female roles were played by boys (Levy 1998).

Since the early seventeenth century, the theater was developed under the protection of kings and nobles. In France, Henry IV and his wife Marie de Medici invited on numerous occasions to Italian companies, and then highlighted the protective role of Cardinal Richelieu. In England, the interest of Charles I and his wife, Henrietta Maria of France, gave a powerful boost to the genre. In Italy, the courts were the center of theatrical activity, while in Madrid actual performances took place, from 1632, in the palace of Buen Retiro.

It is emphasized that throughout the period of increasing importance given to the obligatory literature, applied with intensity to the drama. The "rules of art" consisted enforced mainly on the idea of verisimilitude, in the classical sense of decorum (each character should behave according to social rank), in matching style to the subject (among the three attainable levels: lyric, epic or tragic and comic or satirical) and, finally, in the "three unities" of action, time and place. This policy was based on Aristotle's Poetics, which became a canonical text for literary aesthetics unavoidable. However, while, in France, the rules had an increasingly imperative character, both in Spain and Italy were only respected but little heeded, and England was almost entirely ignored (Douglas 2011).

Theatre is a branch of arts. An action qualifies as drama by creating an illusion of representation. The existence of theaters are from the time when men also existed. It is always a human tendency to tell the story. Since its inception, theater has many types that include speeches, gestures, dance, music, combination of arts, and visual art that are the unique and artistic forms. The word “theatre” is derived from the Greek Old Theatron, which means "seeing place (Wells 1970).”

Drama (literally translated as action, from a verbal root meaning "to do") is the branch of theater in which speech, either written text (plays), or improvised is paramount. Classical forms of drama include Greek and Roman drama, classic English drama, particularly the works of William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, and the French drama, for example, the works of Moliere, are present today.

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