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drama
Found in thesaurus: dramatic composition, dramatic work, episode, genre, literary genre, writing style, emotionalism, emotionality
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drama
n.
genre of performance involving emotional conflict
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Drama
Drama is the specific mode of narrative, typically fictional, represented in performance. The term comes from the Greek word , drama, meaning action, which is derived from the verb , drao, meaning to do or to act. The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a collective form of reception. The structure of dramatic texts, unlike other forms of literature, is directly influenced by this collaborative production and collective reception. The early modern tragedy Hamlet (1601) by Shakespeare and the classical Athenian tragedy Oedipus the King (c. 429 BC) by Sophocles are among the masterpieces of the art of drama. A modern example is Long Day's Journey into Night (1956) by Eugene O’Neill.
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Drama!
"Drama!" is the first single released by Erasure from their fourth studio album Wild!. It was issued by Mute Records in the UK and Sire Records in the U.S.
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Drama, Greece
Drama ( ) is a city and municipality in northeastern Greece. Drama is the capital of the regional unit of Drama which is part of the East Macedonia and Thrace region. The town (pop. 44,823 in 2011) is the economic center of the municipality (pop. 58,944), which in turn comprises 60 percent of the regional unit's population. The next largest communities in the municipality are Choristi (pop. 2,725), Χiropótamos (2,554), Kallífytos (1,282), Kalós Agrós (1,178), and Koudoúnia (996).
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drama
Noun
1. a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage; "he wrote several plays but only one was produced on Broadway"
(synonym) play, dramatic play
(hypernym) dramatic composition, dramatic work
(hyponym) Grand Guignol
(part-meronym) stage direction
(derivation) dramatize, dramatise, adopt
2. an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional
(synonym) dramatic event
(hypernym) episode
(hyponym) night terror
(derivation) embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatise
3. the literary genre of works intended for the theater
(hypernym) writing style, literary genre, genre
(hyponym) closet drama
(derivation) dramatize, dramatise, adopt
(class) sympathetic, appealing, likeable, likable
4. the quality of being arresting or highly emotional
(hypernym) emotionality, emotionalism
(attribute) dramatic
(derivation) dramatize, dramatise
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Drama (das)
n.
drama, genre of performance involving emotional conflict
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drama
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drama, genre of performance involving emotional conflict
