What is the difference between a drama and an epic?

Answer 1

Drama and theatre can be fairly synonymous, but there are several differences. Drama most closely refers to the art of acting on a stage, or the work being performed. It also is an opposite to comedy, meaning that drama takes a more serious tone than lighthearted comedies. Theatre is any component of the art of putting on a performance, including technical work and other components often left out of "drama." When spelled "theater," the word refers to the physical space in which these productions are performed.

Answer 2

DRAMATIC THEATRE --- EPIC THEATRE

plot --- narrative

implicates the spectator in a stage situation --- turns the spectator into an observer, but

wears down his capacity for action --- arouses his capacity for action

provides him with sensations --- forces him to take decisions

experience --- picture of the world

the spectator is involved in something --- he is made to face something

suggestion --- argument

instinctive feelings are preserved --- brought to the point of recognition

the spectator is in the thick of --- it, shares the experience

the spectator stands outside, studies --- the human being is taken for granted

the human being is the object of --- the inquiry

he is unalterable --- he is alterable and able to alter

eyes on the finish --- eyes on the course

one scene makes another --- each scene for itself

growth --- montage

linear development --- in curves

evolutionary determinism --- jumps

man as a fixed point --- man as a process

thought determines being --- social being determines thought

feeling --- reason

Answer 3

Dramatics- as an art form- covers both comedy and tragedy and everything in between- on stage, as in film, pardon the biblical language! Normally one distinguishes between a Drama- with a serious, though not necessarily tragic theme ( such as Dragnet) and Comedy such as Three Stooges, etc. all movies are a form of dramatics, but not all are drama, so it goes . Former member of Stevens Academy Dramatic Club in l972.

Answer 4

tragedy can be a drama and the end it must be the sad.on the other hand drama not necessary a tragedy and it must be continuous.

Tragedy is the specific genre of drama. Drama is a general genre of literature.

Answer 5

fiction modern and common

Fiction is written and read

Drama is performed and observed.

Answer 6

An epic is meant to be recited or read; a drama is meant to be acted but can also be read.

Answer 7

Nothing particularly.

A tragedy is a story with a sad ending.

An epic is a long story.

Answer 8

one involves more hades and more slashing, the other less.