Definition of Drama

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Definition of Drama

Drama

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.

A series of real events invested with a dramatic unity and interest.

Dramatic composition and the literature pertaining to or illustrating it; dramatic literature.

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Drama Quotations

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Wilson Mizner

My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.
Clint Eastwood

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.
Woody Allen

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Alfred Hitchcock

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.
Alfred Hitchcock

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
Victor Hugo

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
Victor Hugo

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.
Judy Garland

I need drama in my life to keep making music.
Eminem

Drama Translations

drama in Afrikaans is drama
drama in Danish is drama
drama in Dutch is toneelstuk, drama
drama in French is le drame
drama in German is Drama
drama in Italian is dramma
drama in Portuguese is drama
drama in Spanish is drama

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