Domestic drama
Domestic drama expresses and focuses on the realistic everyday lives of middle or lower classes in a certain society, generally referring to the post-Renaissance eras.
Though this describes the events of 'ordinary people', the shows tended to stretch realism, focussed mainly on the romantic relationships of the rustics, and were decorated with an emphasis on the comedic aspect of theater.
Drama in the late seventeenth century consisted of neoclassical comedies focusing on the comedic relationships within the upper classes.
This era also consisted of the Restoration drama and placed an emphasis on the usage of poetic language, “sensational incidents, and epic personages” within the show.
The eighteenth century marks the arrival of domestic drama as the shows start focusing on the problems of the ordinary people.
Playwrights such as Ibsen have drawn much attention to domestic drama and have brought this method to its high significant stature in modern theatrical works.
Modern works also use interpretive ideas, such as “distinctive voice and vision, stark settings, austere language in spare dialog, meaningful silences, the projection of a powerful streak of menace, and outbursts of real or implied violence.”[4] The utensils of dramatic works have greatly expanded, but all still carry the roots of domestic drama.
The text of a domestic drama follows a specific guideline in order to stay within this genre: subject, structure, and language.
Domestic dramas follow a fairly linear structure and generally have a sort of patriarchal figure as a representative of the family.
From the seventeenth to the nineteenth era, drama expressed the ideals of the caste and court system, with nobility on high and rustics down low.
Nineteenth century induced the importance of the middle-class within drama and introduced the role of the bourgeois and the usage of aristocratic entertainment.
Theater was considered to have “good [socially] position” characters against the immoral acts of society, usually a sort of infringement against a certain code of behavior.
