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closet drama
closet drama a play that is meant to be read rather than performed. Precursors of the form existed in classical times. Plato's Apology is often regarded as tragic drama rather than philosophic dialogue. The dialogues of Cicero, Strabo, and Seneca were probably declaimed rather than acted, since o... Read more
folk drama
folk drama noncommercial, generally rural theater and pageantry based on folk traditions and local history. This form of drama, common throughout the world, declined in popularity in the West (although not in Asia) with the advent of printing, general literacy, and the increasing emphasis on the in... Read more
Asian drama
Asian drama dramatic works produced in the East. Of the three major Asian dramas—Sanskrit, Chinese, Japanese—the oldest is Sanskrit, although the dates of its origin are uncertain. See also Sanskrit literature ; Chinese literature ; Japanese literature ; and drama, Western . ... Read more
Western drama
Western drama plays produced in the Western world. This article discusses the development of Western drama in general; for further information see the various national literature articles. Greek Drama The Western dramatic tradition has its origins in ancient Greece. The precise evolution ... Read more
William Archer
William Archer 1856-1924, English author, critic, and translator, b. Scotland. Throughout his life he worked as drama critic on several London newspapers. He influenced the direction of English and American drama through his active interest in the work of the great Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen... Read more
Manuel Tamayo y Baus
Manuel Tamayo y Baus , 1829-98, Spanish dramatist. Born into a family of actors, Tamayo became one of the most popular and versatile Spanish playwrights of the 19th cent. Among his many successful plays are the historical Locura de amor [the madness of love] (1855) and his tragic masterpiece, Un ... Read more
morality play
morality play form of medieval drama that developed in the late 14th cent. and flourished through the 16th cent. The characters in the morality were personifications of good and evil usually involved in a struggle for a man's soul. The form was generally static, but it contributed significantly to ... Read more
Robert Sanford Brustein
Robert Sanford Brustein 1927-, American educator and drama critic, b. New York City. As dean of the Yale Univ. Drama School (1966-78), he made it one of the major American training grounds for the theatrical arts. During this period he also founded and directed the Yale Repertory Theatre. In 1979, ... Read more
Bronson Howard
Bronson Howard 1842-1908, American dramatist, b. Detroit. His plays are important in the development of American drama. He was a newspaper reporter in New York until the success of his first play, Saratoga, a farcical comedy produced in 1870. He wrote 12 subsequent plays, including Young Mrs. Wi... Read more
ballad opera
ballad opera in English drama, a play of comic, satiric, or pastoral intent, interspersed with songs, most of them sung to popular airs. First and best was The Beggar's Opera (1728) by John Gay . The vogue for these operas lasted until c.1750. ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "dramas"

Asian drama
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Asian drama dramatic works produced in the East. Of the three major Asian dramas—Sanskrit, Chinese, Japanese...literature ; Japanese literature ; and drama, Western . Sanskrit Drama Sanskrit drama is part of Sanskrit...
Schools of Drama
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre Schools of Drama. Until the present century entry into...through a three-year course at a recognized drama school, of which there are some 30 in...or study in a university department of drama . The leading London schools include the...
Poetic Drama
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...the public preferred the rhetorical dramas of Sheridan Knowles and Bulwer-Lytton...About the turn of the century, poetic drama, under such diverse influences as...Casey . Among the English poetic dramas of the early 20th century John Masefield...
Drama
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History Drama. The history of theater...American types in native dramas. Taking center stage...father of American drama, turned to the Revolutionary...frontier life. Few dramas of this first period...x2010;written drama, theater flourished...
University Departments of Drama
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre University Departments of Drama. The first attempt to present theatre...established in 1914 a Department of Drama offering a degree in theatre arts. More...1925 of a postgraduate Department of Drama at Yale , headed by George Pierce Baker...
Western drama
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Western drama plays produced in the Western world. This article discusses the development of Western drama in general; for further information see...various national literature articles. Greek Drama The Western dramatic tradition has its origins...
Liturgical Drama
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre Liturgical Drama, plays based on the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Considering the drama inherent in its subject, it is not surprising...voices, this soon developed into a small drama of three or four scenes covering the main...
Religious Drama in America
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...x2010;Lytton 's English drama Richelieu (1839), which dealt...works. At the same time native drama began to employ religious and...growth of commercial religious drama, the political and economic...wrote the first of his religious dramas, Murder in the Cathedral...
Theater and Drama
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying ...of the hero of Greek drama was inextricably bound...Spain. In early medieval drama, liturgical plays ritualized...fires of hell. In these dramas, death was often seen...seventeenth-century drama, theater scholar Deborah...quest for immortality. Dramas of the Golden Age often...
drama
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...his Poetics . Classical Roman drama relied heavily on Greek models...influenced Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, such as the plays of Thomas...arte . Twentieth-century drama received its impetus from the...Ibsen and Strindberg . The verse dramas of T. S. Eliot marked the...

Dictionary entries related to "dramas"

drama
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church drama. In the first centuries of the Christian era, drama existed only in the form of spectacula...the model for other liturgical dramas which were widely disseminated...16th cent. Vernacular religious drama intended for popular audiences...
Theatre and drama
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Theatre and drama. Theatre, both East and West, has been...ritual share much in common with theatre and drama. In religious theatre, as in ritual and...to many characteristic forms of ritual drama—e.g. in Bali and in Java...
Oper und Drama
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Oper und Drama (Ger.). Opera and Drama . Long essay by Wagner , written in Zurich 1850–1, in which he expounded his theories on mus. drama, speech-origins, etc.
Drama
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Drama (religious): see THEATRE AND DRAMA .
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Mus. college in Glasgow, originating from Glasgow Athenaeum...prof. of mus. Prefix ‘Royal’ 1944. Drama sch. added 1950, present title dating from 1968. Separate Prin...
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Guildhall School of Music and Drama . Mus. acad. est. 1880 by Corporation of City of London in warehouse...building in Barbican Arts Centre. Name changed to add ‘and Drama’ in 1935. Full-time courses. First prin. Weist...
music drama
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music music drama. Term used by Wagner after Lohengrin to describe his operas in order to emphasize that the mus., dramatic, and scenic elements were on equal terms—a fusion of the arts as Gluck had proposed. Yet the old It. description of opera was dramma per musica .
Nō drama
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Nō drama (Jap., nōgaku , nohgaku ; ‘skill music’ or ‘skill entertainment’...
Welsh College of Music and Drama
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Welsh College of Music and Drama . Welsh mus. coll. founded 1949 as Cardiff Coll. of Mus. in Cardiff Castle. Changed to present title 1970. Moved in 1975 to new building in castle grounds at Cathays Park. Awards diplomas LWCMD and GWCMD. Prin. from 1990, Edmond Fivet.
Suicide
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary ...puts a bullet through her breast. [Nor. Drama: Ibsen The Wild Duck in Magill I, 1113...drove another man to suicide. [Swed. Drama: Ibsen Hedda Gabler ] Goneril stabs herself...her murder plot is discovered. [Br. Drama: Shakespeare King Lear ] Hero grief...

Thesaurus entries related to "dramas"

drama
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus drama • noun   1. a television drama synonyms : play, show, piece, theatrical work, dramatization.   2. he is studying drama synonyms : acting, the theater, the stage, the performing...
conservatory
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English conservatory • noun   1. plants in the conservatory synonyms : greenhouse, hothouse.   2. studying at the conservatory synonyms : conservatoire, music school, drama school, academy/institute of music/drama.
acting
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus acting • noun  the theory and practice of acting synonyms : drama, the theater, the stage, the performing arts, thespianism, dramatics, dramaturgy, stagecraft, theatricals; informal treading...
rhetoric
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...but if a precise meaning can be found for it this meaning may occasionally represent a virtue.” (“ ‘Rhetoric’ and Poetic Drama,” in The Sacred Wood , 7th ed.; 1950.) — BG
series
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...sequence, string, chain, run, round; spate, wave, rash; set, course, cycle; row, line; formal concatenation.   2. a new TV series synonyms : serial, program, show, drama; soap opera; informal soap, sitcom, miniseries.
instrument
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...dial, display; avionics.   3. Tony tuned his instruments synonym : musical instrument. See table.   4. drama can be an instrument of learning synonyms : agent, agency, cause, channel, medium, means, mechanism, vehicle, organ...
stage
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...for many international meetings synonyms : setting, scene, site, arena, background, backdrop. phrase: the stage   a career connected with the stage synonyms : the theater, drama, show business, the footlights, the boards.
theater
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English theater • noun   1. study theater at college synonyms : drama, dramatic art, dramaturgy, the stage, show business, thespian art; inf. showbiz.   2. the lecture theater synonyms...
presentation
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...of their new product synonyms : launch, launching, show, exhibition, display, demonstration.   6. attend the drama club's presentation of Hamlet synonyms : production, performance, staging, mounting, showing, rendition.   7...
foreground
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus foreground • noun   1. the foreground of the picture synonyms : front, fore.   2. in the foreground of the political drama synonyms : forefront, vanguard, van, spearhead, head, lead, front, fore, front line, cutting edge.

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Drama: Ways into critical literacy in the early childhood years.
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Drama Queen.
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TV Drama in China
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Drama and Politics in the English Civil War.(Review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/2000; ; 700+ words ; Susan Wiseman. Drama and Politics in the English Civil War...after the closing of the theaters in 1642, drama stopped altogether in England for eighteen...and to interrogate the assumption that drama did not exist in England during the 1 640s...
Creative drama in preschool curriculum: teaching strategies implemented in Hungary.(teaching strategies)
Magazine article from: Childhood Education; 12/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...curriculum rich in opportunities for creative drama. This article describes teaching strategies and activities in creative drama for children ages 3-7, primarily through...the Little Snug House (2). CREATIVE DRAMA AND ITS TYPES Creative drama is an improvised...
Drama therapy helpful to all ages.
M2 Presswire; 3/30/2004; 700+ words ; ...March 2004-Kansas State University: Drama therapy helpful to all ages(C)1994...her job teaching college students to be drama therapists. Bailey is a Kansas State University...department, director of K-State's drama therapy program, a registered drama therapist...
Drama, Play, and Game: English Festive Culture in the Medieval and Early Modern Period.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Shakespeare Studies; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...held views about the drama and its development...plays replace liturgical dramas, moralities replace...sponsored and secular drama; rereads the medieval...the development of such dramas. Clopper argues, in...of biblical and moral drama in late medieval England...
Dramas and talent shows: Chinese television.(The Media in China)
Magazine article from: Guanxi: The China Letter; 3/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...598 television dramas totaling 183,123...average television drama in the early 2000s...China's Television Dramas The first Chinese TV drama, a 30-minute...Popular Types of Dramas Today, not only does television drama boast the highest...
The drama enthusiast: a million different directions.(Primary)
Magazine article from: NATE Classroom; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...the playground. No way! 'Vinay' loves drama lessons because it gives him the opportunity...expectations too!) I have always loved drama. I was lucky enough to have a very vibrant...teacher when I was at school. She loved drama; not just asking us to read and perform...
Drama breathes life into traditional Bible lessons
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail; 8/10/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...church who writes the dramas and has witnessed...regularly incorporates drama into its services...Easter and Christmas dramas. For two days before...others who orchestrate drama presentations in...City, Ala., uses drama in his weekly Wednesday...Follis said. Brief dramas help "break ...