Characteristics of the Dramatic Genre

Is named drama to the literary genre consisting of a text that is written to be acted out and is part of the literary genres. Its origin occurred in ancient Greece and was the way to venerate the ancient god Bacchus (Dionicio).

In the dramatic genre there are no musical performances, they are basically dialogues, and in it the annotations that They tell us when and how the actors should enter and the interventions and times that the author establishes and that the director.

What is the dramatic genre?

It consists of a text that is intended for theatrical interpretation, and is exposed in the form of dialogues. The drama is a discursive resource with which some historical fact or event, some experience, an adventure or simply a story can be represented.

Characteristics of the dramatic genre:

1.- Division. It is divided depending on the topic that is being addressed into:

• Realistic gender
• Gender unrealistic

2.- Representation. It is designed to be performed in front of an audience and through a group of people called actors who represent a specific character in the story.

3.- Topic. The theme can be of any type, but it focuses on aspects of everyday life.

4.- Interest. One of the fundamental objectives of the drama is that the spectator is interested in the story, understands it and obtains an outcome. It is very important that the performance reliably transmits the message it wants to convey to the public.

5.- It is not synonymous with theater. It is usually treated as a synonym for theater, so it is often confused but its characteristics are different.

6.- Writing. The dramatic genre is always written and has annotations called annotations that are those that indicate when each character enters and leaves as well as the instructions for the director.

7.- Divisions. It has two divisions that are:

1. Major dramatic genre. This includes tragedy, comedy, piece, melodrama, tragicomedy, force and didactic work.
2. Minor drama genre. It includes the sainete, al paso, the auto sacramental, the opera and the zarzuela.

Example of text in dramatic genre:

Fragment of "The best mayor, the king" by Lope de Vega:

[Scene II]

ELVIRA exits.

ELVIRA

Sancho was coming down here,
or he has mocked my desire.
To the faith that I see there;
that the soul showed me.
The stream looked
where he yesterday he looked at me;
If he thinks that there it was
any shadow of me ?;
that I got angry when I saw
that among the waters he saw me.

What are you looking for crystals
these free streams,
Sancho, may the skies guard,
every time you go out to the field?

Have you found some corals
What in this margin did I lose?

SANCHO

Finding me would like me,
that I lost since yesterday;
but I am coming to see me,
Well, I come to find myself in you.

ELVIRA

I think [to] help me you come
Let's see if I can find them.

SANCHO

It's good to come find
what on your cheeks you have!
Are they ailments or disdain?
Albricias, I already found them!

ELVIRA

Where?

SANCHO

In your mouth, I have,
and with silver estremos.

ELVIRA

Deviate.

SANCHO

Always ungrateful
to the loyalty of my faith!

ELVIRA

Sancho, you are very daring.
Tell me: what else would you do
if by chance you were
on the eve of husband?

SANCHO

That, whose fault was it?

ELVIRA

Yours, to faith.

SANCHO

Mine? Not,
I already told you, and he spoke to you
the soul, and you didn't answer.

ELVIRA

What more answer did you want,
what not to answer you?

SANCHO

We are both blamed.

ELVIRA

Sancho, well you are so sane,
warns that women
we speak when we are silent,
we grant if we deny;
for this, and for what you see,
never give us credit,
neither cruel nor loving,
because all our things
They are to be understood backwards.

SANCHO

According to that, you give license
that I ask Nuño here.

Shut up? Then you say yes.
Enough; I already understand science.

ELVIRA

Yes; but be warned
do not say that I want to.

SANCHO

He comes.

ELVIRA

The event I hope
behind that elm.

SANCHO

Oh my God,
if it brought us both together,
because if not, I will die!

20 Examples of Works and authors of the dramatic genre:

1. Hamlet,William Shakespeare
2. Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare
3. Othello, William Shakespeare
4. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
5. Summer night Dream, William Shakespeare
6. Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond rostand
7. Eumenides, Aeschylus
8. Prometheus in chains, Aeschylus
9. The supplicants, Aeschylus
10. The Miserables, Victor Hugo
11. Our Lady of paris, Victor Hugo
12. The antique store, Charles dickens
13. Waiting for Godot, Samuel Becket
14. The nameless, Samuel Becket
15. Comedies (between 166 and 160 BC), Publio Terence
16. The misanthrope, Moliere (Jean Baptiste Poquelin)
17. The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexander dumas
18. The Three Musketeers, Alexander dumas
19. The lady of Monsoreau, Alexander dumas
20. The best mayor, the king, Lope de Vega