English Essentials - Destroying Drama - Essential Techniques for Analysing Drama (Stage 5, Years/Grades 9-10)

This lesson focuses on essential techniques for analyzing drama, including characterization, staging, and genre. It covers methods of characterization using dramatis personae and secondary text, such as stage directions and scene descriptions. The lesson also explores the use of iambic pentameter and staging techniques, and discusses different drama genres and their conventions.

What is the purpose of verbal imagery in older dramas?

Explain the concept of 'pathetic fallacy' as discussed in the lesson.

How does the text differentiate between tragedy and comedy in drama?

What are the characteristics of the Southern Gothic genre as mentioned in the text?