Please define five different elements of drama.

The elements of drama were first defined by Aristotle in
his Poetics. Aristotle named six elements of drama, not five, but
the fifth and sixth are amenable to combination. The first
element of drama, according to Aristotle, is thematic idea.
This is the thought behind the drama, the thing that drives its structure and delivery.
Theme may be revealed through dialogue, through circumstances of the drama, or through
the action of the drama. And ... action is the second element of
drama.

The second element of drama is
also called plot. Plot is the action that drives the drama
forward to the conflict and, eventually, to the resolution. It is the crisis and
conflict and both rising and falling action that the characters face and experience in
the drama. And ... characters are the third element of drama.

The
third element of drama is the
characters, or people, who experience the plot. Characters
represent distinct and identifiable individuals, like Puck, with personal
characteristics, like age and appearance (costume department!); with social
characteristics, like beliefs and socio-economic background; and with national or ethnic
characteristics, like culture and language. And ... language is the fourth element of
drama.

The fourth element of drama,
language, is critical to dialogue, which is what renders
the drama understandable to the audience as well as gives exposition, like in
Our Town, or defines the characters, like in The Glass
Menagerie, or defines and drives the action, like in A Streetcar
Named Desire. Additionally, drama now recognizes the various sign languages,
like American Sign Language, as language tools for dialogue.

The
fifth element of drama incorporates
music with the Aristotelian idea of
"spectacle" of drama. Not every play includes music, but
many do, even if it is only thematic music that introduces the play and concludes it.
Shakespeare was a proponent of music in drama as in Much Ado About
Nothing and As You Like It. Music contributes to the
spectacle of drama, which also comprises costumes and settings and effects--anything
that makes drama a visual and auditory spectacle. [See href="http://homepage.smc.edu/adair-lynch_terrin/ta%205/elements.htm">Terrin
Adair-Lynch's discussion for further detail.]