What are the classifications of drama?

①Drama can be divided into: tragedy, comedy and drama according to the nature of the content of the work.

Tragedy refers to a kind of drama that depicts the failure, suffering and destruction of the main character due to the conflict with the real environment or due to his own fault. Most of the main characters in tragedy are positive or heroic. The dramatic conflict of tragedy is manifested in the following ways: the ideal of progress pursued by the positive hero or the righteous cause pursued by the hero cannot be realized under the specific historical conditions because of the obstruction of the powerful real forces, and finally ends in the hero's failure, suffering or destruction; or the hero is not a heroic figure, or even has serious shortcomings, but there are still reasonable factors in a certain kind of hope that he wants to realize, but it fails because of the blow of the evil forces, suffering or destruction.

The comedy generally satirizes and ridicules the ugly and backward phenomenon, thus affirming the beautiful and progressive reality and ideal as its main content. The conflict of comedy includes the antagonism and conflict between the advanced and beautiful and the backward and ugly things, and also includes some kind of conflict between the ugly and the ugly, and between the advanced and the advanced. The essence of comedy is to satirize and negate the old things and to glorify, praise and affirm the new things. For example, Moliere's The Hypocrites, Gogol's The Chinaman, and so on.

Positive drama is also called tragic-comedy because it has elements of both tragedy and comedy. Because of the characteristics of both tragedy and comedy, positive drama can reflect social life in many ways, expanding and enhancing the breadth and depth of the drama to reflect life. For example, "The White-haired Girl", "The Spectrum of the Dancers", "The Xi'an Incident" and so on.

②Performance form can be divided into: drama, opera and dance drama.

③ According to the subject matter written in the work, it can be divided into: historical drama, children's drama.

④By the size of the capacity and the form of structure, it can be divided into: multi-act plays, one-act plays.

Theatre Classification II:

1) According to the form of expression: drama (such as "Thunderstorm"), opera (such as "The White-haired Girl"), dance drama (such as "Silk Road Flowers and Rain"), pantomime, etc.;

2) According to the plot of the plot and the structure of the plot: one-act plays, multi-act plays (such as "Thunderstorm");

3) According to the subject matter of the times reflected in the sub-topics: historical drama (such as "Qu Yuan"), modern drama (such as "Qu Yuan"), and modern drama (such as "The Greatest Showman").

3) according to the subject matter of the times reflected: historical drama (such as "Qu Yuan"), modern drama (such as "Thunderstorm");

4) according to the nature of the conflict: tragedy (such as "Qu Yuan"), comedy (such as "The Merchant of Venice"), drama (such as "The White-haired Girl")

5) according to the occasion of the performance of the sub: stage plays, radio dramas, television dramas, and so on.

Knowledge of Dramatic Literature

Dramatic literature refers to a variety of specific styles of plays. Unlike other literary works, plays are not written to be read, but to be performed. Great dramatists like Guan Hanqing and Shakespeare spent their lives writing dozens of plays. Therefore, the law of writing plays must be governed by the law of stage art. Dramatic literature is characterized by the following: firstly, it should reflect the life in a condensed way, and highly concentrate the characters, time and scenes in the limited space and time on the stage with strong dramatic conflicts, so that the small world of the stage can accommodate the big world of the human world as much as possible, and the intricate and complicated reality of the life is condensed, and reproduced on the stage artistically with shorter length, fewer characters, less scenes, and more simple events. Secondly, the language of the play. Secondly, the language of the play, mainly the language of the characters (lines), must be personalized, with a certain character of the characters, from the heart, spit in the mouth of the language. Let the audience through the dialog to see the character of the character of the encounter, produce a sense of action, so as to show the plot. Thirdly, there should be a concentrated conflict. Only the conflict can promote the development of the plot, no concentrated conflict, there is no drama. Dramatic literature is not a novel like the narrative, but the body of speech, can only let the characters appear to speak in their own way, the character of the character of the antagonism and conflict can be formed, there is a "play". Fourth, the structure and layout of the script should be skillfully arranged to make the development and ending of the plot is very clever, and even fascinating, unpredictable, to enhance the dramatic effect. The classification of dramatic literature is diverse. From the nature of the content classification, there are tragedy, comedy and drama (tragic-comedy); from the expression of classification, there are drama, opera, dance, opera, poetry; from the structure of the form of classification, there are one-act plays and multi-acts; from the classification of the subject matter, there are historical dramas, modern dramas, fairy tale dramas and so on.

Drama, opera, dance drama Dramatic literature according to the art form and presentation method classification, there are drama, opera, dance drama. Drama is characterized by dialogue as the main means of expression. Dialogue must be standardized literary language, easy to understand, easy to accept the audience, suitable for reflecting life. Opera is a kind of vocal and instrumental music synthesized into a form of drama, so also called opera for music drama. Some operas have only singing, no monologue and dialog, while others have all three. The lyrics and music of an opera are very important, and the language of the lyrics should be the language of poetry. Dance drama is a theatrical art that combines dance, music and drama. It is characterized by: the development of the plot, characterization, mainly by the actor's dance movements (and music language) to show. Dance in the drama is divided into plot dance and performance dance two kinds: plot dance used to show the plot of the drama, performance dance used to depict the plot of the era and the characteristics of the environment