drama
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1. drama - Noun
2. Drama - Proper noun
Meaning
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 is life with the dull parts cut out of it.
A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.
Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.
War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.