About The Word Drama

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Drama

Drama Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Drama?
[n] the quality of being arresting or highly emotional
[n] the literary genre of works intended for the theater [n] a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage; "he wrote several plays but only one was produced on Broadway" [n] an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional Synonyms | Synonyms for Drama: dramatic event | play Related Terms | Find terms related to Drama: acting | alphabet | antimasque | art | audience success | ballet | blueprint | boards | bomb | broadcast drama | Broadway | burlesque | burlesque show | carnival | charactering | characterization | charade | chart | choreography | circus | cliff hanger | closet drama | comedy drama | conventional representation | critical success | dance notation | daytime serial | delineation | demonstration | depiction | depictment | diagram | dialogue | documentary drama | dramalogue | dramatic art | dramatic play | dramatic series | dramatics | dramaturgy | drawing | duodrama | duologue | entertainment industry | epic theater | exemplification | experimental theater | extravaganza | failure | figuration | flop | footlights | gasser | giveaway | Grand Guignol | happening | hieroglyphic | histrionics | hit | hit show | iconography | ideogram | illustration | imagery | imaging | improvisational drama | legit | legitimate drama | legitimate stage | letter | limning | logogram | logograph | map | masque | melodrama | minstrel show | miracle | miracle play | monodrama | monologue | morality | morality play | music drama | musical notation | musical revue | mystery | mystery play | notation | off Broadway | off-off-Broadway | opera | pageant | panel show | pantomime | Passion play | pastoral | pastoral drama | photoplay | pictogram | picturization | piece | plan | play | playland | playlet | portraiture | portrayal | prefigurement | presentment | printing | problem play | projection | psychodrama | quiz show | radio drama | realization | rendering | rendition | repertory drama | representation | review | revue | scenario | schema | score | script | sensational play | serial | show | show biz | show business | sitcom | situation comedy | sketch | skit | soap | soap opera | sociodrama | spectacle | stage play | stage show | stage world | stagecraft | stagedom | stageland | stock | straight drama | strawhat | strawhat circuit | success | summer stock | suspense drama | syllabary | symbol | tablature | tableau | tableau vivant | talk show | teleplay | television drama | television play | the boards | the footlights | the scenes | the stage | the theater | theater | theater of cruelty | theater world | theatre | theatricalism | theatrics | theatromania | theatrophobia | Tom show | total theater | variety | variety show | vaudeville | vaudeville show | vehicle | word-of-mouth success | work | writing See Also | act | closet drama | comedy | dramatic composition | dramatic work | emotionalism | emotionality | episode | genre | literary genre | miracle play | morality play | mystery play | night terror | Passion play | playlet | satyr play | stage direction | theater of the absurd | tragedy | writing style Drama In Webster's Dictionary \Dra"ma\ (?; 277), n. [L. drama, Gr. ?, fr. ? to do, act;
cf. Lith. daryti.]
1. A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action,
and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to
depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than
ordinary interest, tending toward some striking result. It
is commonly designed to be spoken and represented by
actors on the stage.
A divine pastoral drama in the Song of Solomon.
--Milton.
2. A series of real events invested with a dramatic unity and
interest. ``The drama of war.'' --Thackeray.
Westward the course of empire takes its way; The
four first acts already past, A fifth shall close
the drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is
the last. --Berkeley.
The drama and contrivances of God's providence.
--Sharp.
3. Dramatic composition and the literature pertaining to or
illustrating it; dramatic literature.
Note: The principal species of the drama are {tragedy} and
{comedy}; inferior species are {tragi-comedy},
{melodrama}, {operas}, {burlettas}, and {farces}.
{The romantic drama}, the kind of drama whose aim is to
present a tale or history in scenes, and whose plays (like
those of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and others) are stories
told in dialogue by actors on the stage. --J. A. Symonds.
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