The introduction of drama—my new breakthrough

Impressed! ; That’s the word which describes my feeling as I was in first three classes of EDU 3217, Teaching the Language of Drama. I was impressed with the unfamiliar terms used related to this field especially on the pronunciations and the meaning of those Greek terms such as moira, soliloquy, carthasis etc. Apart, it is quite complicated but it was indeed fun to study the first three lectures on the Introduction of Drama – Overview of the History of Theatre. There are abundance of new things I’ve learnt, to be precise, a lot! Apart from that, the introduction of drama/theatre does give some enlightenment to me as the introduction does provide a clear horizon of what theatre and drama is all about and the distinguish difference of diverse kind of theatre.
It is undeniably pleasurable to learn this as it does endow with vivid view of what theatre and drama is all about through out the development of theatre. furthermore, it had brought up the existence of new and modern type of theatre; from Greek theatre, Roman theatre, medieval theatre, restoration drama and finally up to 20th century drama. It provides the opportunity in exploring a lot of new things which regards to the history of theatre and drama.
The part that I keen on the most is the difference between the two types of theatre; Aristotelian and Brechtian(epic). This is where I can see the crystal clear distinction between both theatre which I previously have “zero” ideas about them. One of the differences that I feel so unique is in terms of what the drama appeals to. In Aristotelian theatre, it allures to emotions, whereas the Brechtian appeals to intellect. What lingers in my mind is that HOW does this two types of drama will present us the two divergent elements; emotions and intelligence? How do those components emerge in the drama?
This gives me “thrill” to discuss and to go further into the study of drama.