Drama as a whole and the broad popular modes that sit beside tragedy and comedy, including drama as the mode of fiction represented in performance, melodrama with its sensational plots and strong emotional appeal, the masque as festive courtly spectacle, and the costume drama of palace intrigue. A genre belongs here when its cited article describes a general dramatic mode or a popular, spectacular or courtly staged entertainment rather than one named tradition of one country. It excludes tragedy, the comic forms and the regional theatre traditions, which have their own groups.
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Drama (Wikipedia)
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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.
Masque - Wikipedia
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The masque was a form of festive courtly entertainment that flourished in 16th- and early 17th-century Europe, though it was developed earlier in Italy, in forms including the intermedio (a public version of the masque was the pageant).
Melodrama (Wikipedia)
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A melodrama is a dramatic work in which plot, typically sensationalized for a strong emotional appeal, takes precedence over detailed characterization.
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