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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(Renaissance Drama) Backgrounds and Contexts - Student projects for a class on Renaissance Drama, including papers on Ben Jonson, Thomas Kyd and John Webster.
Collaboration, Authorship, and Sexualities in Renaissance Drama - Review of Jeffrey Masten's Textual Intercourse, on collaboration in renaissance drama.
Dr Matthew Steggle - Syllabus on revenge tragedy, with essay questions and links.
Elizabethan Stage Scenery - By Eva Turner Clark. Originally published in the October 1941 Shakespeare Fellowship Newsletter (American Branch).
Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance - Review of Katharine Eisman Maus's work on subjectivity and interiority in Renaissance literature.
Poculi Ludique Societas - Sponsors of productions of early English drama from the Medieval period to the 17th century.
Records of Early English Drama Project - Web resources for theatre history, with annotated links arranged by subject.
Records of Early English Drama: Somerset. (Including Bath, ed. Robert J. Alexander). 2 Vols - Review of James Stokes, ed. Records of Early English Drama: Somerset.
Rose Theatre - Discusses the 1999 reopening of the Rose Theatre, venue for the plays of Marlowe, Kyd, Jonson and Shakespeare.
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The Stage Designs of Inigo Jones: The European Context - Review of John Peacock's work on Jones's achievement.
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