drama: meaning and definitions

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What is drama?

What is drama?

  • A prose or verse composition, especially one telling a serious story, that is intended for representation by actors impersonating the characters and performing the dialogue and action.
  • A serious narrative work or program for television, radio, or the cinema.
  • Theatrical plays of a particular kind or period: Elizabethan drama.
  • The art or practice of writing or producing dramatic works.
  • A situation or succession of events in real life having the dramatic progression or emotional effect characteristic of a play: the drama of the prisoner's escape and recapture.
  • The quality or condition of being dramatic: a summit meeting full of drama.

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