ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The definition of a scene in drama is a small section of the play, a division of a play’s acts. That is to say, acts are divided into scenes. Scenes are like the chapters of a textbook. Those chapters, which are contained within larger sections or parts of the book, are like acts in a play.

Detailed explanation-2: -An act is a major division of a theatre work, including a play, film, opera, or musical theatre, consisting of one or more scenes.

Detailed explanation-3: -What Is a Scene? A scene is a subdivision of an act and a unit of action in a play that introduces new settings and characters at a chosen time. While an act defines itself by rising action, climax, and resolution, the scene features action that takes place in one place and at a specific time.

Detailed explanation-4: -in varying degrees the 5 act structure corresponded to the 5 main divisions of dramatic action, exposition, complication, climax, falling action, catastrophe.

Detailed explanation-5: -A play is usually divided into acts, similar to what chapters are in a novel. A short play may consist of only a single act, and then is called a “one-acter".