Drama

:This article refers to the art form. For the town, see Drama, Greece.

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Town - Drama, Greece

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Drama is a term generally used to refer to a literary form involving parts written for actors to perform. Dramas can be performed in a variety of media: live performance, film, or television. "Closet dramas" are works written in the same form as plays (with dialogue, scenes, and "stage directions"), but meant to be read rather than staged; examples include the plays of Seneca, Manfred by George Gordon Byron, and Prometheus Unbound by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Other dramatic literature may not resemble plays at all, such as the Imaginary Conversations of Walter Savage Landor.

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Actor - Film - Television - Closet drama - Seneca - Manfred - George Gordon Byron - Prometheus Unbound - Percy Bysshe Shelley - Imaginary Conversations - Walter Savage Landor

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Drama is a Greek word meaning `action', drawn from the Greek verb dran, `to do'. Greek tragedians applied it to the plays they wrote; Euripides is portrayed in the Acharnians of Aristophanes crying out, "Oimoi ta dramata!" (Oh no what's become of my plays).

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Greek - Euripides - Acharnians - Aristophanes

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