Difference between dramatic text and theatrical performance

Drama as text

A dramatic text can be defined in a variety of different ways. Aristotle suggested that dramas were forms of poetry that required written literary texts and performed actions. However, dramas can also be viewed as texts or performances. A written literary dramatic text can be viewed as a piece of literature that exists separately from the actions or images used to perform a text. In western traditions of drama, literary dramatic texts are often identified as plays and these texts can form the basis of the scripts used and presented by performers. While plays may explore and describe various kinds of human actions through carefully constructed literary and poetic forms, they need not always be poetic or refer to ‘real’ or even ‘human’ events, activities, languages or images. While written dramatic texts are usually regarded as literary texts that are composed for performance, written texts that have not been composed for performance may also be identified as dramatic if they refer to or include action.

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Examples: Shakespeare’s plays eg. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Verbatim Theatre...

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