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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.
During the reign of Elizabeth I (1558–1603) and then James I (1603–25), in the late 16th and early 17th century, a London-centred culture, that was both courtly and popular, produced great poetry and drama. The English playwrights were intrigued by Italian model: a conspicuous community of Italian actors had settled in London.
Roudane, Matthew C. American Drama Since 1960: A Critical History (1996) online; Shiach, Don. American Drama 1900–1990 (2000) Vacha, John. From Broadway to Cleveland : a history of the Hanna Theatre (2007) in Cleveland. Ohio online; Watt, Stephen, and Gary A. Richardson. American Drama: Colonial to Contemporary (1994) Weales, Gerald Clifford.
However, alarmed at increasing Christian growth, he cut off contact from Japan to Europe and China and outlawed Christianity. When peace did come, a flourish of cultural influence and growing merchant class demanded its own entertainment. The first form of theatre to flourish was Ningyō jōruri (commonly referred to as Bunraku).
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