Drama/Theater Vocabulary

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Drama

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Drama is a form of literature written for performance.

Two types: comedy and tragedy

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Comedy

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A story that ends happily, a funny story

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Tragedy

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a drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness, or inability to cope.

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Character

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A person who appears on stage and takes part in the drama

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Protagonist

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a character around who the story revolves, the mian or most important character in a story.

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Antagonist

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Major characters in the play whose ideas and/or values conflict with those of the protagonist.

"the villain or bad guy"

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Dramatic Irony

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A situation on stage that the audience knows but the characters in the drama are unaware of.

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Conflict

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major source of tension within the drama

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Theme

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Main idea of the story that the writer is trying to convey to the audiance

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Plot

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the actual story that moves the drama along

the sequence of events that brings a character and the story to life