Drama and Comedy are two of the founding genres that first started in amphitheaters during Grecian times, back in ancient days. After that Rome and the rest of Europe would become infatuated with heroic tragedies and happy endings. These are two human aspects of life and in many ways they remind me of life and death. In modern films, theater, and books the founding principals are still held in place but revamped for society and ones like ours. If art depicts life than surely drama and comedy are the paint.
Drama is an essential part to making anything seem life like or making something fiction seem real enough to actually exist. It provides us a reason to feel sorry, or sad, or even remorseful. Without drama there would be no suffering. Without that pain and betrayal written into such stories as Macbeth and Julius Caesar there would be a human element missing, something to draw us to such agony and distraught temperaments. To be apart of drama is to experience death and eventuality.
Comedy was originally the happy smile, the jaunty laugh, and the cunning romance. It gave the audience a chance to be happy and experience a kindred desire or dream. Perhaps it provided a much needed rescue from the princely hero and delivered a foolish and poor-folk champion. Even in our society today comedy has a broad meaning. It can mean anything from a stand-up comic to an animated movie filled with colorful chuckles. To be apart of comedy is to experience life and to dine and drink wine with Bacchus.
There are too many examples to name great movies and theater plays along with books and the new booming market for stories in video games. The best advice this writer can give is to adventure out into the world of literature and theatrical likenesses and find something that speaks to you. Whether it is a sad tale or a happy tale, find that which truly pangs in the sub-cockles of your heart. Experience something spectacular and remember that we are the retainers of the ancient arts.
With this knowledge, and if you are a venturing writer yourself, how will you honor this time old tradition? How will you change it? Who knows, right?
The future itself is an unknown drama filled with beguiling comedy.
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