Skip to page content
People, Space and Conflict; Greek Theatre and Dramatic Structure
Performing Arts: Drama · Chapter 1 · Section A: Drama as Art
Not started Not started
Your path through this chapter
Visual lesson Coming soon
Short slides, one idea at a time. We are preparing this chapter's lesson.
Notes Coming soon
Clear chapter notes for quick revision.
Flashcards Coming soon
Quick recall of key terms and facts.
Practice Coming soon
Board-style questions with instant checks.
Chapter test Free
Short and long chapter tests in board pattern, with results and analysis.
Step 5: Not started
Topics 5
- Use of people, space and conflict in drama: characters and their objectives, proximity and levels, types of conflict
- Greek theatre in brief: origins in the festivals of Dionysus, the theatre building, chorus and masks
- Greek playwrights: Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides (tragedy) and Aristophanes (comedy)
- Aristotle and dramatic structure: the elements of tragedy in the Poetics
- Freytag's Pyramid: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution