In literature, the word drama defines a genre, or style of writing. Drama is a play that can be performed for theatre, radio, or even television. These plays are usually written out as a script, or a written version of a play that is read by the actors but not the audience.
Tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy, and melodrama are the four main types of drama. Although these genres emerged at separate times, each has its own distinct qualities.
Drama was introduced to Britain from Europe by the Romans, and auditoriums were constructed across the country for this purpose. Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television. Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's Poetics .
Christopher Marlowe was William Shakespeare's senior by two months. One of the most striking figures of the English Renaissance and the true founder of the popular English drama, hence the father of English tragedy. Marlowe wrote four great tragedies and became a forerunner of Shakespeare.
There were numerous dramatist around the world penning wonderful art pieces and enthralling readers.
Do share in the comments the dramatist who made you to consider reading this genre.
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