/lit/ - Literature

[Friday !!igiZdSM8WVW No.465751]

How does /lit/ feel about drama? Does it count as literature? What makes a play "literary"?

[Anonymous No.465760]

yes, it's literary.

it's a specialization of the written form.

it's especially literary if it's wrote good.

[Anonymous No.465762]

>>465760
>if it's wrote good

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[Anonymous No.465763]

>He once said to me later, You know why I spend so much time paring dialogue? Because I loathe actors. Those were always two things about him. He wasn't a playwright, a dramatist turned scriptwriter. All he did, I write dialogue. Once he put it: I'm a dialogue installer and repairman. Another time: At least most screen-actors never learn to act. That was my sin, that day.

[Anonymous No.465775]

>If I had been born into an earlier world, where society punished the heretic, I should very probably never have betrayed Nell -- or at any rate I should have concealed the betrayal much better. But I was what the Victorians banned from their arts: a dramatist. I think they condemned and castrated the theater for so long because they knew the stage is a long step nearer an indecent reality than the novel. It tells secrets publicly, it gabs to strangers, its lines are spoken not by anonymous print, in a solitude like that of defecation or masturbation, merely in the single mind, but by men and women in front of an audience. The novel, print, is very English; the theater (despite Shakespeare) is not. I was always consious of this paradox, of my all-hiding private self and my lying public one; my unwritten Sonnets and my all too written Plays.

[Anonymous No.466056]

U kidding? it's serves as one of the ORIGINS OF LITERATURE DUMBASS!!! Here's a visual:ORAL TRADITION--> DRAMA-->Scrolls--->Books

[Anonymous No.466059]

Does it really need to be said?

[Anonymous No.466069]

Drama is a written art just as much as music and film.

See what I did there? It's meant to be performed VISUALLY. Granted, there are some literary elements (especially w/ closet dramas) but it's only barely literature, at least not as much as prose and poetry.

[Anonymous No.466078]

>>466069

>insinuating that lyrics are not poetry

[Anonymous No.466105]

>>466078

>insinuating that lyrics are poetry but whose main emphasis is AURAL and not literary

[Anonymous No.466112]

>>466105

>insinuating that ancient poetry was written and not AURALLY transmitted

[Anonymous No.466107]

>>466105

insinuating that ancient poetry was written and not AURALLY transmitted

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[Anonymous No.467401]

Dramatic text is most definitely literature. If it's is the written word and of merit, then it is lit. I mean, for Christ's sake that's half of what they teach throughout high school and university.

[Anonymous No.467754]

Arthur Miller------- not a real writer....

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>>466056