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Dramatic Uneasiness - Part 1: How real is life on stage?


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The Dramatic genre of literature has its own conventions and aspects which naturally changed across the centuries. 

In the opening episode of this Litrilogy entitled "How real is life on stage?", we invite you to join us for an overview of the main forms of western dramatic art. Starting with the Greeks, passing though the Middle Ages up to the modern ideas of drama, and the overflowing of different ways of constructing the dramatic action. 

Before we get to the Theatre of the Absurd in the 20th century, we believe it's important to understand what were the changes that allowed a myriad of expressions on the stages, thus making Drama survive.

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Soundtrack: Desespoir Agreable from Erik Satie played by Mal Waldron (1983)

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