What is "drama"

Drama \Dra"ma\ (dr[aum]"m[.a] or dr[=a]"m[.a]; 277), n. [L. drama, Gr. dra^ma, fr. dra^n to do, act; cf. Lith. daryti.]

1. 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 divine pastoral drama in the Song of Solomon.
   --Milton.

2. A series of real events invested with a dramatic unity and interest. ``The drama of war.''
   --Thackeray.

   Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last.
   --Berkeley.

   The drama and contrivances of God's providence.
   --Sharp.

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

   Note: The principal species of the drama are tragedy and comedy; inferior species are tragi-comedy, melodrama, operas, burlettas, and farces.

   The romantic drama, the kind of drama whose aim is to present a tale or history in scenes, and whose plays (like those of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and others) are stories told in dialogue by actors on the stage.
   --J. A. Symonds.

1510s, from Late Latin drama "play, drama," from Greek drama (genitive dramatos) "play, action, deed," from dran "to do, act, perform" (especially some great deed, whether good or bad), from PIE *dere- "to work." Drama queen attested by 1992.

n. 1 A composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue 2 Such a work for television, radio or the cinema (usually one that is not a comedy) 3 theatrical plays in general 4 A situation in real life that has the characteristics of such a theatrical play 5 (context slang English) rumor, lying or exaggerated reaction to life events; melodrama; an angry dispute or scene; intrigue or spiteful interpersonal maneuvering.

1. n. a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage; "he wrote several plays but only one was produced on Broadway" [syn: play, dramatic play]

2. an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional [syn: dramatic event]

3. the literary genre of works intended for the theater

4. the quality of being arresting or highly emotional

Drama is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the Region of East Macedonia and Thrace. Its capital is the town of Drama. The regional unit is the northernmost within the geographical region of Macedonia and the westernmost in the administrative region of East Macedonia and Thrace. The northern border with Bulgaria is formed by the Rhodope Mountains.

Drama is the tenth studio album by the English rock band Yes, released on 18 August 1980 by Atlantic Records. It is their only album to feature Trevor Horn as lead vocalist, following the departure of Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman in March 1980 after unsuccessful recording sessions for a new album in Paris and London. Horn was joined by keyboardist Geoff Downes, his partner in the new wave band The Buggles. Drama was recorded in a short amount of time as a tour was already booked prior to the change in personnel. It marked a departure in the band's musical direction with songs more accessible and aggressive that featured the use of modern keyboards and a vocoder.

Drama was released to a mostly positive critical reception, with most welcoming the band's new sound. The album peaked at No. 2 in the UK and No. 18 in the US, and became their first album since 1971 not to reach Gold certification by the RIAA. " Into the Lens" was released as the album's sole single. Yes toured the album with a 1980 tour of North America and the UK, and were met with some negative reactions during the latter leg over the new line-up change. Yes disbanded at its conclusion; Horn ventured into producing, Howe and Downes co-formed Asia, and Squire and White formed Cinema with Trevor Rabin which led to a reformed Yes in 1982. Yes performed Drama in its entirety for the first time on their 2016 European tour.

Drama is the debut studio album by British R&B recording artist Jamelia released by Parlophone Records in the United Kingdom in June 2000.

Drama is the debut full length album of Swedish indie pop musician Montt Mardié. It was released on November 7, 2005 by the Swedish record label Hybris. The album is very pop oriented, allowing many different tempos and styles to be placed next to one another. References to a girl named Annie are made throughout in more than five of the albums twelve songs.

Drama is an album released by German singer and actress Carolin Fortenbacher in 2008.

Terence Cook, better known by his stage name Drama, is an American Dirty South rapper, best known for his 1999 hit single " Left, Right, Left".

Drama are a 4-piece rock band formed in Bolton, England in 2007. The band comprises vocalist, guitarist and keyboardist Ian Gordon, guitarist and backing vocalist Rob Heyes, bassist Rik Hindle and drummer Alan Taylor. The band are currently preparing to release their second EP - "Beneath the Veil" - featuring remastered songs recorded at Outhouse Studios in Reading with producer John Mitchell.

Drama, which is the form of literature usually performed as theatre, may refer to:

• Drama, a general genre of dramatic works, such as literature, film, television drama, game, etc.
  • Drama, a narrative, represented in performance
  • Comedy-drama, a subgenre of drama
  • Docudrama, a subgenre of drama
  • Drama film, a film genre
  • Dramatic programming, television drama series content
  • Legal drama, a subgenre of drama
  • Melodrama, a subgenre of drama
  • Political drama, a subgenre of drama

Drama may also be a name or title:

Drama is the ninth studio album by the British female vocal duo Bananarama. It features eleven newly recorded tracks, along with a remix of their 1986 smash hit " Venus" (done by Soft Cell's Marc Almond) and a 2005 remix of their 1982 hit " Really Saying Something", an underground bootleg club hit produced by Solasso.

Drama is a comeback of sorts for Bananarama members Keren Woodward and Sara Dallin and is their first album to be released in their native UK since 1993. The album's first single " Move in My Direction" debuted on the UK Singles Chart at Number 14, also becoming their first UK Top 40 hit since 1993. The second single, " Look on the Floor (Hypnotic Tango)", also hit the UK Top 40, and climbed to Number 2 on the US Hot Dance Club Play chart as an import, becoming Bananarama's biggest US dancefloor hit since "Venus" two decades earlier.

The album mostly incorporates pop and eurodance musical styles, with some synthpop elements. Drama charted at a number 169 in the UK. It was later released in the United States (both in retail stores and as digital downloads) in 2006. While the album performed well on Billboard's Top Electronic Albums chart, peaking at number 21, it did not chart on the Billboard 200, the US Pop Albums chart.

In the context of film and television, drama is a type of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone, focusing on in-depth development of realistic characters who must deal with realistic emotional struggles. A drama in this context is commonly considered the opposite of a comedy, but may also be considered distinct from other works of some broad types of literature, such as a fantasy.

To distinguish drama, in this narrower sense, from the broader use of the same word to mean the general storytelling mode of live performance, the word "drama" is often included as part of a phrase to specify its meaning. For instance, in the sense of a television genre, more common specific terms are a "drama show", "drama series", or "television drama" in the United States; "dramatic programming" in the United Kingdom; or "tele drama" in Sri Lanka. In the sense of a type of film, the common term is a "drama film". The term "the drama" refers to "the dramatic branch of literature; the dramatic art".

It is this narrow sense that the film and television industry and film studies adopted to describe " drama" as a type of film within their respective media.

With regard to radio, and the contemporary theatre the situation is more complex. " Radio drama" has been used in both senses, and it was originally used to described a play transmitted as a live performance; but it is also used to describe the more serious end of the dramatic output on the radio. Likewise in the theatre, dramas: "Serious or 'straight' plays as opposed to musicals or comedies make up many of the 18,000 theatrical productions that take place in London each year." The London and New York Theatre Guides (online) makes use also of these same three categories and the term "drama" is again a catch-all category, which in London, April 2015, included Ben Jonson's satirical comedy, The Alchemist, Shakespeare's tragedy, King Lear, his romantic comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream, other classics, Samuel Beckett's tragicomedy All That Fall. along with "serious" contemporary plays.

"Drama" is the first single to be lifted from Kate Miller-Heidke's fourth album O Vertigo!, written by Keir Nuttall & featuring vocals from Australian hip-hop artist Drapht. The song was released in February 2014 and has yet to chart.

Drama is the first mini album Mandarin solo by Aaron Yan of Taiwanese Mandopop quartet boy band Fahrenheit. It was released by HIM International Music on 30 May 2014. The EP consists of six songs performed by Yan.

Drama is a one-hour UK television anthology series produced by Open City Productions. It consists of seven episodes of abridged productions of classic plays that were aired on the British Broadcasting Company in 1977. Episode titles are Oedipus Tyrannus, MacBeth, Medieval Mystery Plays, The Venetian Twins, The Way of the World, The Wild Duck, and Six Characters in Search of an Author.

Actors included Patrick Stewart, Leo McKern, and Nigel Stock.

Drama is a graphic novel written by Raina Telgemeier. The story talks about Callie, the protagonist, who has a love for the theater and the arts and dreams of being in a production. However, she realizes at a young age that her singing voice isn't up to the mark in comparison with the others out there so instead she works with a stage crew and a set designer, determined to make the set Broadway ready, with a minor setback of a middle school budget. With drama that happens both on and off the stage paired with two cute boys, things turn wild.

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning " action" ( Classical Greek: , drama), which is derived from "to do" ( Classical Greek: , drao).

The two masks associated with drama represent the traditional generic division between comedy and tragedy. They are symbols of the ancient Greek Muses, Thalia and Melpomene. Thalia was the Muse of comedy (the laughing face), while Melpomene was the Muse of tragedy (the weeping face). 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 (c. 335 BCE)—the earliest work of dramatic theory.

The use of "drama" in the narrow sense to designate a specific type of play dates from the 19th century. Drama in this sense refers to a play that is neither a comedy nor a tragedy—for example, Zola's Thérèse Raquin ( 1873) or Chekhov's Ivanov ( 1887). It is this narrow sense that the film and television industry and film studies adopted to describe " drama" as a genre within their respective media. " Radio drama" has been used in both senses—originally transmitted in a live performance, it has also been used to describe the more high-brow and serious end of the dramatic output of radio.

The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a collective form of reception. The structure of dramatic texts, unlike other forms of literature, is directly influenced by this collaborative production and collective reception. The early modern tragedy Hamlet ( 1601) by Shakespeare and the classical Athenian tragedy Oedipus the King (c. 429 BCE) by Sophocles are among the masterpieces of the art of drama. A modern example is Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill (1956).

Drama is often combined with music and dance: the drama in opera is generally sung throughout; musicals generally include both spoken dialogue and songs; and some forms of drama have incidental music or musical accompaniment underscoring the dialogue ( melodrama and Japanese Nō, for example). In certain periods of history (the ancient Roman and modern Romantic) some dramas have been written to be read rather than performed. In improvisation, the drama does not pre-exist the moment of performance; performers devise a dramatic script spontaneously before an audience.

Drama was a Norwegian pop band from Larvik founded in 1981. They were dubbed Norway's first boy band. The band split in 1984 and reunited in 1987 but disbanded again in 1989. They released a total of four studio albums.

The band initially consisted of five members: Per Kristian "Muffe" Indrehus ( vocals and guitar), Geir Olav "Gækki" Bøkestad (guitar, vocals and keyboard), Per Arne "Perry" Strandbakken (keyboards), Tomas Siqveland ( bass, vocals) and Gunnar "Stikka" Refsdal ( drums). All members were 15 years old when the debut album came out, except Indrehus who was 17. In 1983 the band added Ole Jan "Ollie" Rimstad on guitar, vocals and keyboards.

The band released two albums, Breaking Away in 1982 and High Time in 1983, before Indrehus and Bøkestad left to start as a duo. The two would continue to use the Drama name, which resulted in a lawsuit against the rest of the band. After losing they renamed the duo Creation, while the four remaining members continued under the name of New Drama. Creation released four albums and New Drama two albums before they were reunited again under the name of Drama in 1987 and released another two albums. The band was finally dissolved in 1989.

Drama and Creation and released a double album on 29 May 2006. This album contains 42 tracks, including one new song, "Hello." The group was profiled on the second season of Gylne tider.

Drama is a 2012 Indian Kannada romantic comedy thriller written, directed and co-produced by Yogaraj Bhat under the banner Yogaraj Movies and Jayanna Combines. It stars Yash, Radhika Pandit, Sathish Ninasam and Sindhu Lokanath in leading roles and Ambareesh in an extended cameo appearance.

Music for the film was scored by V. Harikrishna while lyrics for the soundtrack were written by the successful combination of Jayanth Kaikini and Yogaraj Bhat. Krishna was roped in as the cinematographer for the film, who had previously worked with Bhat in the massively successful film, Mungaru Male.

Drama (also known as The Drama Channel so it isn't confused with CBS Drama) is a digital television channel broadcasting drama (and, to a lesser extent, comedy) programming in the United Kingdom and Ireland as part of the UKTV network of channels. The channel launched on 8 July 2013, replacing Blighty. On Freeview, the channel was placed on channel 20, previously occupied by Gold. On Sky, the channel initially launched on channel 291, in the overspill area of the Entertainment section and moved to channel 166 on 24 July after purchasing the slot used by PBS America. The channel launched on Virgin Media on 14 August on channel 190. In September 2014, ITV blamed the channel for their 7% profits fall.