About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 76. Chapters: Character, Classical unities, Mystery play, Punch and Judy, Drama film, Teichoscopy, Monologue, Augustan drama, Screenwriting, Mimesis, Theatre of the Ridiculous, Travesti, Ramlila, Performance studies, Intermedio, Meta-reference, Breeches role, Domestic drama, Trial film, Closet screenplay, Applied Drama, Orphans, Stichomythia, The Big Shot Caller, Well-made play, Licensing Act 1737, Heroic drama, The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations, Mermaid Series, Dramatic monologue, Burra katha, Closet drama, Process drama, Aqua drama, Comedy of manners, Verse drama and dramatic verse, Deuteragonist, Essay of Dramatick Poesie, Catastrophe, Bourgeois tragedy, Costume drama, Realism, Problem play, Monodrama, She-tragedy, Anatomy of Gray, Renaissance tragedy, Tritagonist, Aside, Talent show, Senecan tragedy, Two-hander, Domestic tragedy, Chamber play, Explorative strategies, Theatrical style, Antilabe, Creative drama, Cold reading, Regional Best 2011, Duodrama, Epitasis, Ropewalk, Sock and Buskin, Parodos, Dundrearyism, Frames and distance, Catastasis, Folk play, Protasis, Dramatic theory. Excerpt: Augustan drama can refer to the dramas of Ancient Rome during the reign of Caesar Augustus, but it most commonly refers to the plays of Great Britain in the early 18th century, a subset of 18th-century Augustan literature. King George I referred to himself as "Augustus," and the poets of the era took this reference as apropos, as the literature of Rome during Augustus moved from historical and didactic poetry to the poetry of highly finished and sophisticated epics and satire. In poetry, the early 18th century was an age of satire and public verse, and in prose, it was an age of the developing novel. In drama, by contrast, it was an age in transition between the highly witty and sexually playful Restoration comedy, the pathetic she-traged...
