After the performance your group should stay in front to discuss it with the class. See the following page for suggestions. The first group are questions to be considered scene by scene. The second group look back at the whole play. Hamlet says that drama holds the mirror up to nature.
Genres are important parts of drama because they create a set of expectations and conventions.
If a play is tragic, it is likely to be concerned with the heroic and to use tragic irony, in which characters' actions have results very different from their intentions. Comedies usually emphasize entertainment, but they can also be serious. They often focus on characters as types, that is, socially defined roles. A play is normally written for a specific kind of theater, using certain theatrical conventions. Plays are shaped to evoke some kind of audience response, for example, varying degrees of detachment toward or involvement with individual characters.