Drama

Short Note- Drama

 

Drama is a serious literary work usually intended for performance before an audience. It is a literary form designed for the theatre, in which the representation is by actors who impersonate the characters and perform the action and dialogue. In Poetic Drama the dialogue is written in verse instead of prose. Comedy, Tragedy, Chronicle Plays,

Masque, Miracle and Morality plays are dramatic species; Act, atmosphere, chorus, plot and character, setting, soliloquy and dramatic illusion, stock characters are dramatic components; Expressionism, Realism and Nationalism and Symbol are dramatic style. Although ‘play’ is often used as a synonym for drama, the two terms differ slightly in meaning. The word ‘drama’ may also be used in a narrower sense to refer to a serious play, movie, or television show.