The classical modes of stage drama, defined by outcome and tone rather than subject: comedy's resolution toward reconciliation, tragedy's descent toward catastrophe, tragicomedy's deliberate mixture of the two, and drama as the general stage genre encompassing both. Belongs here: a genre whose defining convention is performance for the stage and one of these classical outcome patterns. Does not belong here: a prose narrative genre that merely borrows dramatic structure, such as the picaresque novel.
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Originating in the theatre of ancient Greece 2500 years ago, where only a fraction of the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides survive, as well as many fragments from other poets, and the later Roman tragedies of Seneca.
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