drama
Let an agent handle drama as a literary form through its texts, works, performance and study, with sourced facts and neutral critical views.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Form Which drama.
Medium
Stage or screen.
Medium
Medium.
- Is it stage, radio, television or film drama? definition
- Which genre? definition
Work
Specific work.
Work
Specific work.
- Which work is meant, and who wrote it? provenance
- When was it first performed or broadcast? provenance
Analysis Structure.
Structure
Acts and scenes.
Structure
Dramatic structure.
- How is the work structured? definition
- Which conventions does it use? definition
Criticism
Reception.
Criticism
Critical reception.
- How have critics received it, and which critics? provenance
- Are opinions attributed? boundary
Performance Productions.
Productions
Where and when.
Productions
Productions.
- Where is it being performed or streamed now? provenance
- What is the age rating? provenance
Licensing
Rights.
Licensing
Performance rights.
- Is a licence needed to perform it? provenance
- Who grants it? provenance
Participation Taking part.
Education
Classes.
Education
Drama education.
- Where can people study or join drama groups? provenance
- Is it accessible? provenance
Senses
Disambiguation.
Senses
Figurative sense.
- Is drama in the sense of conflict or excitement meant? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Information and virtual systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- INF
- Domain
- INF.MED
- Other names and narrower kinds
- historical pageant, radio adaptation, radio drama, medical drama, spy radio play, war radio play, science fiction radio play, radio drama manuscript, Japanese radio drama, radio-scene, fantasy radio program, legal radio program
What it is Filled
A literary form intended for performance, written as character lines and authorial directions and usually divided into acts and scenes, including plays for stage, radio and screen; it encompasses comedy, tragedy and other dramatic genres rather than referring only to serious narrative works.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent handle drama as a literary form through its texts, works, performance and study, with sourced facts and neutral critical views.
Distinguishing features Filled
- The text is intended for performance.
- Character dialogue and action shape the work.
- The form spans stage, radio and screen.
- Authorial directions guide performance, and texts are usually divided into acts and scenes.
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Reproduce or distribute scripts or recordings in breach of copyright.
- Misattribute authorship or present an adaptation as the original.
- Present events depicted in a drama as historical fact without saying it is fiction.
- Create performances that imitate real actors without their consent.
Only with a human decision
- Publishing an adaptation, translation or synthetic performance of a drama.
May
- Describe, summarise and analyse dramas, crediting writers and performers.
- Quote short extracts within copyright limits.
Moral aspects Filled
- Drama depicts real communities and history; misrepresentation can wound or mislead.
- Writers and performers depend on rights and credit for their living.
Who is affected
- Writers and performers
- Audiences
- People and communities depicted
Owners Filled
Steward
The rights holders for each work; the performers hold rights in their performances.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q1318295 - registry parent class
related
- narrative - category
- theatre - venue
- playwright - author
- comedy - genre
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.drama
- Wikidata: Q25372 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25372)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane INF: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Scripts, acts and scenes
- Stage, radio and screen drama
- Drama as everyday conflict is a figurative sense
- Performances on stage, radio, television or screen; scripts and productions.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- identify dramatic forms and genres
- find productions and adaptations
- analyse dramatic structure
- find drama education and performance opportunities
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Presenting taste as fact
- Unlicensed performances
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Performing rights and licensing
- Age ratings for broadcast and film
Context of use required Filled
- Storytelling through performance.
- stage plays
- radio drama
- television drama
- historical pageants
- genre dramas such as medical and spy drama
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q25372: drama - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Drama - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should dramatic forms be separate entries?
- How should productions be linked?
- How should the figurative sense be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q25372/spec.json