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Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television. [1] Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's Poetics (c. 335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory.
American Drama between the Wars (1991) online; Palmer, David, ed. Visions of Tragedy in Modern American Drama (Bloomsbury, 2018). Richardson, Gary A. American Drama through World War I (1997) online; Roudane, Matthew C. American Drama Since 1960: A Critical History (1996) online; Shiach, Don. American Drama 1900–1990 (2000) Vacha, John.
Under Elizabeth, the drama was a unified expression as far as social class was concerned: the Court watched the same plays the commoners saw in the public playhouses. With the development of the private theatres, drama became more oriented toward the tastes and values of an upper-class audience.
The morality play is a genre of Medieval and early Tudor theatrical entertainment. In their own time, these plays were known as "interludes", a broader term given to dramas with or without a moral theme. [6]
Melodrama is "an exaggerated version of drama". [1] Melodramas typically concentrate on dialogue that is often bombastic or excessively sentimental , rather than on action. Characters are often flat and written to fulfill established character archetypes .
In this broader sense, drama is a mode distinct from novels, short stories, and narrative poetry or songs. [3] In the modern era, before the birth of cinema or television, "drama" within theatre was a type of play that was neither a comedy nor a tragedy. It is this narrower sense that the film and television industries, along with film studies ...
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The Texas State Historical Association publishes an encyclopedia on Texas history, geography, and culture called the Handbook of Texas. [11] In Norway, "Texas" is used as slang for something chaotic and uncontrolled, as influenced from popular Norwegian depictions of cowboy culture and Western literature associated with Texas. "Der var helt texas!