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- Drama - n. - A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than ordinary interest, tending toward some striking result. It is commonly designed to be spoken and represented by actors on the stage.
- Drama - n. - A series of real events invested with a dramatic unity and interest.
- Drama - n. - Dramatic composition and the literature pertaining to or illustrating it; dramatic literature.
- Dramatic - a. - Alt. of Dramatical
- Dramatical - a. - Of or pertaining to the drama; appropriate to, or having the qualities of, a drama; theatrical; vivid.
- Dramatically - adv. - In a dramatic manner; theatrically; vividly.
- Dramatis personae - - The actors in a drama or play.
- Dramatist - n. - The author of a dramatic composition; a writer of plays.
- Dramatizable - a. - Capable of being dramatized.
- Dramatization - n. - Act of dramatizing.
- Dramatize - v. t. - To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode.
- Dramatized - imp. & p. p. - of Dramatize
- Dramatizing - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Dramatize
- Dramaturgic - a. - Relating to dramaturgy.
- Dramaturgist - n. - One versed in dramaturgy.
- Dramaturgy - n. - The art of dramatic composition and representation.
- Monodrame - n. - A drama acted, or intended to be acted, by a single person.
- Imbroglio - n. - An intricate, complicated plot, as of a drama or work of fiction.
- Denouement - n. - The unraveling or discovery of a plot; the catastrophe, especially of a drama or a romance.
- Melodrama - n. - Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio".
- Character - n. - One of the persons of a drama or novel.
- Action - n. - The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.
- Revival - n. - Renewed performance of, or interest in, something, as the drama and literature.
- Tragi-comedy - n. - A kind of drama representing some action in which serious and comic scenes are blended; a composition partaking of the nature both of tragedy and comedy.
- Interlude - n. - A form of English drama or play, usually short, merry, and farcical, which succeeded the Moralities or Moral Plays in the transition to the romantic or Elizabethan drama.
- Tragedy - n. - A dramatic poem, composed in elevated style, representing a signal action performed by some person or persons, and having a fatal issue; that species of drama which represents the sad or terrible phases of character and life.
- Dramatis personae - - The actors in a drama or play.
- Mime - n. - A kind of drama in which real persons and events were generally represented in a ridiculous manner.
- Part - n. - A particular character in a drama or a play; an assumed personification; also, the language, actions, and influence of a character or an actor in a play; or, figuratively, in real life. See To act a part, under Act.
- Subjective - a. - Modified by, or making prominent, the individuality of a writer or an artist; as, a subjective drama or painting; a subjective writer.
- Opera - n. - A drama, either tragic or comic, of which music forms an essential part; a drama wholly or mostly sung, consisting of recitative, arials, choruses, duets, trios, etc., with orchestral accompaniment, preludes, and interludes, together with appropriate costumes, scenery, and action; a lyric drama.
- Proverb - n. - A drama exemplifying a proverb.
- Atellan - n. - A farcical drama performed at Atella.