Final-Drama Terms

Question 1

a person who writes plays

Answer 1

playwright

Question 2

a play that is meant to be read rather than performed

Answer 2

closet drama

Question 3

an instruction in the text of a play

Answer 3

stage directions

Question 4

characterized by physical humor, such as slapstick and pratfalls; fast-paced action, including split-second timing of key exits and entrances; ridiculous caricatures; and broad often crass verbal humor

Answer 4

farce

Question 5

a play that falls in the middle of the tragic/comic spectrum, in that they focus on both high and low characters and situations and that they bring a potentially tragic plot to a happy resolution

Answer 5

tragicomedy

Question 6

a drama movement that questions the meaning of life in a universe seen as godless and which has overthrown such accepted conventions as well-established setting, logical dialogue, and a fully resolved conflict

Answer 6

theater of the absurd