nineteenth-century melodrama and farce. Realism gave rise to various innovations that

served to express the dramatist's vision of what reality is. These attempts to be " more

real than real" can be called expressionism. Realism and expressionism are the two

dominant modes of drama in the twentieth century. One focuses on the external details of

everyday life, while the other focuses on the mind and feelings and tries to show how

The word drama comes from the Greek word dran, which means "to do" or "to

act". Besides being traditionally literary, the drama is a theatrical form. Dramatist do not

usually write with the purpose of communicating directly to the reader, as do fiction

These are often embedded in the society, and usually we respond to plays collectively, as

play, in Aristotle's terms, must have a plot with a beginning, middle, and end. Almost

comedy. The most obvious difference between them is that comedies end happily and

some significant, meaningful pattern. All of us go to plays (or read them) so that we can,

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Drama Modern, main character, modern drama,
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