Works written for the stage: comedy, tragedy, tragicomedy and drama proper. Belongs here: every play in this atlas's roster, from Attic tragedy to twentieth century theatre of the absurd. Does not belong here: a narrative work merely adapted for the stage elsewhere, which stays classed by the form it was actually written in.
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1. Drama (Wikipedia)
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"Drama" in this sense refers to a play that is neither a comedy nor a tragedy, for example, Zola's Therese Raquin (1873) or Chekhov's Ivanov (1887).
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