Varieties of Drama
Across
- 7. When the audience and the actors are already aware of the rules
- 9. A play that treats characters and situations in a humorous way and has a happy ending
- 14. In _______ theatre, sometimes inanimate objects are give human characteristics which is called _______.
- 17. A sometimes comedic play that is marked by an emotional and ideal presentation of life
- 20. Actor alone onstage expressing his/her inner thoughts
- 23. A play in which the audience is recognized as an audience and the play as a play
Down
- 1. Imagined wall that separates actors from the audience
- 2. When a character has bottled up an emotion for a long time and finally lets it all out
- 3. A comedic play that features plots focusing on love affairs
- 4. A play that deals with a social problem or ethical issue, sometimes presenting a solution
- 5. A play in which the protagonist comes to an untimely end
- 6. A type of comedic play that is quite physical, sometimes vulgar, and highly exaggerated in style
- 8. A play performed as if the audience were watching through an imaginary “fourth wall”
- 10. An exaggeration of a certain feature of a character
- 11. A play that deals with unrealistic and fantastic characters
- 12. A comedic play that includes comedy of manners, satire and uses clever lines
- 13. A kind of comedy involving clowning, practical jokes, and improbable characters
- 15. A form of storytelling that teaches moral concepts in which the characters are animals
- 16. A serious play that arouses intense emotion but usually has a happy ending
- 18. Shakespeare wrote his plays in
- 19. An element in drama that arouses feelings of pity and compassion
- 21. A type of low comedy that mocks
- 22. A humorous attack on accepted conventions of society, usually the upper class