These are all notes taken straight from my notebook on the subject.

Kenneth Burke’s theory of dramatism views the real world and human interactions as if it were a drama, like a play.
“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players…”

Burke believed that to understand human acts, one had to understand human motives. Dramatism exists to find what motivates our actions.

A simple way to remember how dramatism works is with the pentad
action, agents, agency, setting, purpose
Dramatism is almost scientific

“The root of all rhetoric is guilt redemption”