| A | B |
|---|
| creative drama | improvisational theater |
| Greek Theater | performances in honor of the god Dionysus |
| Elizabethan Theater | the first type of formalized drama in England; ex: the Globe Theater |
| Dramatic structure | exposition, rising action, climax, et al |
| Playwright | a writer of drama |
| critique | an article or essay evaluating a literary or other work |
| volume | the loudness or intensity of a sound |
| comedy | a humorous presentation |
| motivation | the act or an instance of providing someone with a reason to act a certain way |
| downstage | at or toward the front of the stage |
| cold reading | the first opportunity to experience a script |
| Proscenium | the apron or , especially in ancient theater, the stage itself |
| articulation | the adjustments and movements of speech organs involved in pronouncing a particular sound, taken as a whole. |
| ensemble | a group of supporting players, dancers, and singers in a theatrical production. |
| genre | of or pertaining to a specific literary type |
| cue | anything said or done, on or off stage, that is followed by a specific line or action |
| diction | the accent, inflection, intonation, and speech-sound quality; enunciation |
| melodrama | a dramatic form that does not observe the laws of cause and effect, and that exaggerates emotion |
| subtext | the underlying or implicit meaning of a literary work |
| blocking | a plan to work out the movement of performers in a play, pageant, etc. |
| farce | a light, humorous play in which the plot depends upon a ski8llfully exploited situation rather than upon the development of character. |
| projection | the act of manipulating the voice to allow it to be detected from the various areas of the audience |
| commedia dell'arte | Italian popular comedy in which masked performers improvise from a plot outline |
