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I've cleaned up the article in line with the style guidelines and imported, then edited, expanded, summarised, etc. material from Medieval theatre appropriate to this article. I tried to keep that section short, but it covers many centuries. I'm about to gather the sources used in the citations and add them to the list. It would be good to do the same thing with subsequent periods from articles with appropriate content. The article has hardly changed in the last few years since I wrote most of what's here (in the theatre sections), and it's still pretty patchy in terms of coverage of the subject. I tried to clean up Drama (film and television) too, to clarify and forestall misunderstandings about the complex relations between the terms (they can't be easily separated or distinguished). I've added some material in the lede about the late arrival of the word "drama" in English and its further narrowing into a dramatic genre (yes, drama is a genre of drama(!)). • DP • {huh?} 06:12, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
I've imported content from the drama sections of Restoration comedy and summarised it for a section to contribute to the history of drama section. It could do with a note or two more on Aphra Behn and a mention of George Farquhar right at the end, but I didn't want it to get too long. • DP • {huh?}
Opera is not a form of drama, but a form of theatrical performance one of whose elements is a drama. Ballet also has a dramatic story as an element, but it is not a type of drama. A puppet show is a type of theatrical performance, too, but it is not drama, either. Mime and pantomime are types of performance, and their stories might be of high moral seriousness, but neither the art nor the performance is drama.
"Drama" is a taxonomic class that has, for the Greeks, only two hyponymic divisions, tragedy and comedy; but it is one among other hyponyms of the higher taxonomic category "theatrical performance."
I will therefore eliminate the section. Wordwright ( talk) 22:49, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
Isn't ballet, at least "dramatic dance", also a form of drama? { https://www.britannica.com/art/dance/Drama]. See also the definition of mime as "a theatrical medium where the action of a story is told through the movement of the body, without the use of speech". Ballet, in the form of dramatic dance at least, might well be defined as mime plus music. Rwood128 ( talk) 14:04, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Dramatic arts. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Hildeoc ( talk) 19:36, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
I felt article Islamic_literature is in bit of neglect so I added my note on talk page there, requesting to take note of Talk:Islamic_literature#Article_review. If possible requesting copy edit support. Suggestions for suitable reference sources at Talk:Islamic_literature is also welcome.
Posting message here too for neutrality sake
Thanks and greetings
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Are they many in South Africa 41.113.128.186 ( talk) 20:18, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
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I've cleaned up the article in line with the style guidelines and imported, then edited, expanded, summarised, etc. material from Medieval theatre appropriate to this article. I tried to keep that section short, but it covers many centuries. I'm about to gather the sources used in the citations and add them to the list. It would be good to do the same thing with subsequent periods from articles with appropriate content. The article has hardly changed in the last few years since I wrote most of what's here (in the theatre sections), and it's still pretty patchy in terms of coverage of the subject. I tried to clean up Drama (film and television) too, to clarify and forestall misunderstandings about the complex relations between the terms (they can't be easily separated or distinguished). I've added some material in the lede about the late arrival of the word "drama" in English and its further narrowing into a dramatic genre (yes, drama is a genre of drama(!)). • DP • {huh?} 06:12, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
I've imported content from the drama sections of Restoration comedy and summarised it for a section to contribute to the history of drama section. It could do with a note or two more on Aphra Behn and a mention of George Farquhar right at the end, but I didn't want it to get too long. • DP • {huh?}
Opera is not a form of drama, but a form of theatrical performance one of whose elements is a drama. Ballet also has a dramatic story as an element, but it is not a type of drama. A puppet show is a type of theatrical performance, too, but it is not drama, either. Mime and pantomime are types of performance, and their stories might be of high moral seriousness, but neither the art nor the performance is drama.
"Drama" is a taxonomic class that has, for the Greeks, only two hyponymic divisions, tragedy and comedy; but it is one among other hyponyms of the higher taxonomic category "theatrical performance."
I will therefore eliminate the section. Wordwright ( talk) 22:49, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
Isn't ballet, at least "dramatic dance", also a form of drama? { https://www.britannica.com/art/dance/Drama]. See also the definition of mime as "a theatrical medium where the action of a story is told through the movement of the body, without the use of speech". Ballet, in the form of dramatic dance at least, might well be defined as mime plus music. Rwood128 ( talk) 14:04, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Dramatic arts. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Hildeoc ( talk) 19:36, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
I felt article Islamic_literature is in bit of neglect so I added my note on talk page there, requesting to take note of Talk:Islamic_literature#Article_review. If possible requesting copy edit support. Suggestions for suitable reference sources at Talk:Islamic_literature is also welcome.
Posting message here too for neutrality sake
Thanks and greetings
Bookku ( talk) 07:52, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
Are they many in South Africa 41.113.128.186 ( talk) 20:18, 20 April 2022 (UTC)