Types of Plays

Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripedes are

• Great doctors

• Greek philosophers

• Greek playwrights

• Roman playwrights

This type of play is known for it's heightened sense of emotion

• Tragedy

• Sentimental Comedy

• Melodrama

• Sentimental Drama

In these types of plays current social problems are examined in a serious manner

• Satire

• Social Drama

• Drama

• Tragedy

Aristotle wrote

• The Bald Soprano

• The Musical Comedy

• The Poetics

• The Importance of Being Earnest

What are the three unities?

These types of plays deal with serious subjects, where character development and theme are more important than plot

• Sentimental Drama

• Theater of the Absurd

• Farce

• Drama

These are forms of high comedy:

• Sentimental Comedy, theater of the absurd, farce

• Comedy, parody, musical comedy

• Comedy of manners, satire, parody

• Farce, musical comedy, satire

Fill in the blank: Comedic plays that require witty dialogue and cleverness are called "blank" comedy

** Note: not the type of play

In these types of plays plot is more important than character development and theme. Characters tend to be rather flat.

• Social drama

• Satire

• Sentimental drama

• Melodrama

This is possibly America's only original contribution to theater.

• Musical Comedy

• Parody

• Tragedy

• Sentimental Comedy