Drama is a literary form involving parts written for actors to perform. It is a Greek word meaning "action", drawn from the Greek verb δραν, "to do".
Dramas can be performed in a variety of media: live performance, film, or television. "Closet dramas" are works written in the same form as plays (with dialogue, scenes, and "stage directions"), but meant to be read rather than staged; examples include the plays of Seneca, Manfred by Byron, and Prometheus Unbound by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Other dramatic literature may not resemble plays at all, such as the Imaginary Conversations of Walter Savage Landor. Drama is also often combined with music and dance, such as in opera which is sung throughout, musicals which include spoken dialog and songs, or plays that have musical accompaniment, such as the Japanese Noh drama.
Improvisational drama, a form of Improvisational theatre, is drama that has no set script, in which the performers take their cues from one another and the situations (sometimes established in advance) in which their characters find themselves to create their own dialogue as they perform. Improvisational drama is made up on the spot using whatever space, costumes or props are available.
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Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama - An Oxford project working towards the establishment of the international history of ancient drama in performance. Provides details on the project, events, and publications, as well as images and related links.
Fertile Visions - Discussion of Jacobean Revels and the Erotics of Occasion.
Greek and Roman Comedy - A history of the comic drama, focusing on its origins and development in the works of Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus and Terence.
Meta Description: [ An in-depth analysis of the development of the comic drama in Athens and Rome. ]
Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s - Review of an International Anthology. Has a good background section.
Monologue Archive - An index of monologues for actors.
Meta Description: [ An archive of stage monologues for actors. ]
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