Traditional old records of Pingju

Types of Drama —— From the Perspective of Expression Form

From the form of artistic expression, it can be divided into drama, opera, ballet, opera and so on. 1, drama is characterized by dialogue as the main means of expression. Dialogue must be a standard literary language, easy to understand, easily accepted by the audience and suitable for reflecting life. 2. Opera is a dramatic form that combines vocal music and instrumental music, so it is also called musical. Some operas only have vocals, no monologues and dialogues, while others have both. The lyrics and music of opera are very important, and the language of lyrics should be the language of poetry. 3. Dance drama is a dramatic art that integrates dance, music and drama. Its characteristics are: the development of the plot and the shaping of characters are mainly expressed by the actors' dance movements (and musical language). 4. Traditional Chinese opera is a traditional drama variety. It is a special art that focuses on the performance of actors and integrates literature, music, dance, art, martial arts and acrobatics.

Drama types-from the perspective of space

According to the length, it is divided into one-act dramas, full-length dramas 1, and one-act dramas are short dramas with their own scenes. Due to the strict time and scene restrictions, the plot is required to be compact and the contradictions and conflicts develop rapidly, but the basic parts of the plot-beginning, development, climax and ending-should be shown. 2. Full-length drama is a large-scale drama. Large capacity and complicated story. Because it shows the interval of time and the transfer of space by changing the scene, it can transfer the events that are inconvenient to perform on the stage to the background, handle the events in different time and space, and reflect the broader social life.

The types of drama-from the aspects of content and nature.

From the content, nature and aesthetic category, there are tragedies, comedies and dramas. 1. Tragedy: Generally speaking, it is a dramatic art style that takes the suffering, misfortune and death (destruction) of tragic characters as the theme, and arouses people's feelings of sadness, fear and praise by showing the tragic conflict between great or ordinary characters in which nobility, justice and great behavior are denied. There are four main types of western tragic art: one is the tragedy of fate, and the tragedy of ancient Greece is mainly the tragedy of fate, such as Prometheus Bound; The second is personality tragedy, which mainly refers to the tragedies of Renaissance, such as Shakespeare's four tragedies Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth. The third is social tragedy, which mainly points out that in the present19th century, tragedies that focus on excavating the social causes of tragedies, such as Dumas' La Traviata; Fourth, vicious tragedies refer to all kinds of irresistible catastrophic tragedies.

The types of drama-from the aspects of content and nature.

2. Comedy: It is a dramatic style that satirizes bad habits, exhorts kindness and expresses characters' character in a humorous and relaxed way. Generally speaking, the ending of comedy is always happy, happy. According to the nature of conflict, comedy can be divided into satirical comedy and humorous comedy. Satire comedies mostly reflect the contradiction between the enemy and ourselves. The protagonist is generally a clown or villain, and his role is to expose and criticize. Humorous comedies reflect some weaknesses or shortcomings of characters, and their protagonists are generally positive characters or good people with shortcomings. In addition, comedies are also divided into burlesque, personality comedy, world comedy, lyric comedy, light comedy, burlesque and other types.

The types of drama-from the aspects of content and nature. 3. Drama: It is a type between tragedy and comedy. In drama literature, there are a lot of dramas. In most cases, social life is not a simple tragedy or comedy, but mixed with sadness and joy.

Drama types-from the theme era

According to the times, there are historical dramas and modern dramas: 1. Historical drama refers to a drama adapted from historical events and historical figures. A dramatic work based on real historical figures and events and artistically processed by the author. 2. Modern drama: mainly refers to drama, opera, ballet, etc. Since the 20th century, drama has been introduced from the west, while foreign drama generally refers to drama.