The main argument of the essay is that New England women writers late 19th century, such as Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Alice Brown, Rose Terry Cooke, Annie Trumbull Slosson, and Sarah Orne Jewett, known post-bellum regional realists, were actually continuing certain elements Nathaniel Hawthorne’s poetics fiction. Describing in their short stories novels England’s demographic, economic, cultural d...

In interactive storytelling systems and other story-based computer games, a drama manager is a background agent that aims to bring about an enjoyable and coherent experience for the players. In this paper, we present a personalized drama manager that increases a player’s expected enjoyment without removing player agency. Our personalized drama manager models a player’s preference using data-dri...

Children as young as three engage in the art of make-believe exploring the boundaries of the real and the fantastic [9]. One of the most important aspects of drama is that it provides a type of activity where children engage in the play actively, with several senses. Aristotle refers to this as ”enactment”: which means to act rather than to read. Enacted representations involve direct sensing a...

This study aims to design a new kind of interactive drama, where the user interacts in depth with the course of the narrative, while the dramatic intensity is retained. Based on various theoretical sources on narrative and drama, a model is put forward. This model is used to build a computer system of interactive drama.

Abstract This article explores music’s role in radio drama. While musical aspects of early experimental dramas have often been explored, the music that figures Anglo-American play tradition has remained under-theorized. Borrowing interpretative tools from audiovisual discourses can help to elucidate some subtleties medium, but methodological inadequacies soon become apparent. As exemplars moder...

As screen studies scholars have noted over the past two decades, media representation is critical in being able to see oneself as important society. In 2016, Screen Australia released “Seeing Ourselves: Reflections on Diversity TV Drama” report diversity Australian drama. Ourselves” paints a picture of lack inclusive storytelling scripted TV, suggesting that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender,...

This paper provides a critical review of existing interactive drama systems. An interactive drama takes place within a virtual world in which the user has a high degree of freedom to physically and mentally interact with non-player characters and objects within a dramatically interesting experience which is different on every play, and adapts to the user’s interactions. Those criteria which sho...

Interactive drama has been discussed for a number of years as a new form of AI-based interactive entertainment (Laurel 1986, Bates 1992). While there has been substantial technical progress in building believable agents (Bates, Loyall and Reilly 1992, Blumberg 1996, HayesRoth, van Gent and Huber 1996), and some technical progress in interactive plot (Weyhrauch 1997), no work has yet been comple...

This tutorial describes the Drama Theory paradigm and two of the techniques used to apply the theory – Confrontation Analysis and Immersive Briefings. The historical development of Drama Theory is discussed, followed by a detailed description of the ways in which an analyst can exploit Drama Theory to study various forms of conflict. Examples of the theory in use are scattered throughout the te...

Methods The research team met with the theatre group and 2 women with metastatic breast cancer to create a drama based on a focus group study about living with metastatic breast cancer. People in the drama were interviewed at the beginning, midway through the creative process, and soon after the drama was taken on the road. A key question was: “What is it like for you to be involved in this pro...