Definition of drama

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Drama (n.) 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..

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Interlude :: Interlude (n.) A form of English drama or play, usually short, merry, and farcical, which succeeded the Moralities or Moral Plays in the transition to the romantic or Elizabethan drama..
Interlude :: Interlude (n.) A short piece of instrumental music played between the parts of a song or cantata, or the acts of a drama; especially, in church music, a short passage played by the organist between the stanzas of a hymn, or in German chorals after each line..
Denouement :: Denouement (n.) The unraveling or discovery of a plot; the catastrophe, especially of a drama or a romance..
Intermede :: Intermede (n.) A short musical dramatic piece, of a light and pleasing, sometimes a burlesque, character; an interlude introduced between the acts of a play or an opera..
Drama :: Drama (n.) 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..
Perform :: Perform (v. t.) To represent; to act; to play; as in drama.
Protagonist :: Protagonist (n.) One who takes the leading part in a drama; hence, one who takes lead in some great scene, enterprise, conflict, or the like..
Dramaturgy :: Dramaturgy (n.) The art of dramatic composition and representation.
Representation :: Representation (n.) A dramatic performance; as, a theatrical representation; a representation of Hamlet..
Prologue :: Prologue (n.) The preface or introduction to a discourse, poem, or performance; as, the prologue of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; esp., a discourse or poem spoken before a dramatic performance.
Mystery :: Mystery (n.) A dramatic representation of a Scriptural subject, often some event in the life of Christ; a dramatic composition of this character; as, the Chester Mysteries, consisting of dramas acted by various craft associations in that city in the early part of the 14th century..
Monodramatic :: Monodramatic (a.) Pertaining to a monodrama.
Protasis :: Protasis (n.) The first part of a drama, of a poem, or the like; the introduction; opposed to epitasis..
Player :: Player (n.) A dramatic actor.
Puppet :: Puppet (n.) A similar figure moved by the hand or by a wire in a mock drama; a marionette; a wooden actor in a play.
Poetry :: Poetry (n.) Imaginative language or composition, whether expressed rhythmically or in prose. Specifically: Metrical composition; verse; rhyme; poems collectively; as, heroic poetry; dramatic poetry; lyric or Pindaric poetry..
Dramatization :: Dramatization (n.) Act of dramatizing.
Pantomime :: Pantomime (n.) A dramatic representation by actors who use only dumb show; hence, dumb show, generally..
Tetralogy :: Tetralogy (n.) A group or series of four dramatic pieces, three tragedies and one satyric, or comic, piece (or sometimes four tragedies), represented consequently on the Attic stage at the Dionysiac festival..
Dramatize :: Dramatize (v. t.) To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode..
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