The theatrical kind is a type allotted to a text after its analysis.

The theater wants to be an imitation of an action of the real life: it is the dramatic art (drama=action). One often speaks about a " dramatique" for a play with the radio or on television.

The theatrical kind indicates at the same time a type of Littérature and makes it possible to classify the spectacles according to their style or of their membership of an artistic movement.

In the traditional theater

Styles

• the Comedy
• the Musical comedy
• the Commedia dell' arte
• the drama
• the joke
• the melodrama
• the medieval mystery S
• the Mime
• the lovesong
• the Light comedies
• the Tragedy
• the Tragicomédie
• the lyric Tragedy
• the puppet theater
• the light comedy
• the Theater of improvisation

Dramatic movements

• the Expressionnisme
• the Futurism
• the Symbolism
• the Large Puppet
• the Naturalism
• the Theater of the absurd
• the Theater of oppressed

Related articles

• Carried edifying of the theater
• experimental Theater
• Theater of improvisation

The Rule of the three Units

• It was codified in 1636 by the French Academy after the first representations of Cid by Corneille. This convention is based on the principle of probability or a play must, to the maximum, to imitate the action rélle. The unit of time ideally a day the unit of action only one action is possible if it occurs during the course one day, the unit of space the place where all the people must be able to meet in one day is often a " anteroom, " or a hall.