The specific mode of fiction represented in performance, a play staged before an audience by actors on a theatre stage rather than narrated on the page. Western drama originates in classical Greece, where the theatrical culture of Athens formally staged competitions in three genres, tragedy, comedy and the satyr play, as part of the festivals honoring Dionysus. The dramatic mode has been distinguished from the epic and lyric modes since Aristotle's Poetics: a drama's words arise from the underlying structure of incident and character enacted before an audience, rather than standing as a composition in the verbal medium alone. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Place of OriginClassical Greece, where Western drama originates; the theatrical culture of Athens produced tragedy, comedy and the satyr play, institutionalised in competitions from the 5th century BC honoring Dionysus. 1 Notable ExampleAeschylus's The Persians (472 BCE), the oldest surviving drama, staged at the City Dionysia competition in Athens. 1 Defining TraitEnacted in performance by actors before an audience rather than narrated on the page; Aristotle's Poetics distinguishes drama from the epic and lyric modes on exactly this ground. 1 Drama
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Comedy, Genres Comedy is one of classical Athenian drama's three formally competed genres; Drama is the broader category this atlas's genre vocabulary previously lacked (VocabularyRequest 94).
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Tragedy is one of classical Athenian drama's three formally competed genres.
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Tragicomedy blends tragedy and comedy, the two other classical dramatic subgenres, and is itself staged drama.
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Drama carried zero live author edges before this lane.
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Owed gap from board 3251 (w-depth-lit-genres2-0829/w-depth-lit-authors-0829): No Exit already in-genre Drama; this anchors the author himself.
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the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.
Notes section, on Aristotle's Poetics
the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's Poetics
Classical Greek drama section
Aeschylus' historical tragedy The Persians is the oldest surviving drama, although when it won first prize at the City Dionysia competition in 472 BC, he had been writing plays for more than 25 years.
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Western drama originates in classical Greece. The theatrical culture of the city-state of Athens produced three genres of drama: tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play. Their origins remain obscure, though by the 5th century BC, they were institutionalised in competitions held as part of festivities celebrating the god Dionysus.
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The theatrical culture of the city-state of Athens produced three genres of drama: tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play.
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The theatrical culture of the city-state of Athens produced three genres of drama: tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.Associated With: Tragicomedy, s.v. Tragicomedy, opening definition
wants deaths, which is enough to make it no tragedy, yet brings some neere it, which is enough to make it no comedie
- Encompasses Form: Qu (Chinese Verse Drama Form)
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No Exit (French: Huis clos) is a 1944 existentialist French play by Jean-Paul Sartre.
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He is considered one of the world's pre-eminent writers of the 19th century and is often referred to as the father of modern drama.
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His plays are richly symbolic and serve as a means of conveying his philosophy.
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he wrote his first theatrical piece, Bariona, ou le fils du tonnerre, a drama concerning Christmas
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A Doll's House...is a three-act play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.
Mother Courage and Her Children (Wikipedia)
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a play written in 1939 by the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht
William Tell (play) (Wikipedia)
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William Tell...is a drama written by the German playwright and philosopher Friedrich Schiller in 1804.
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