Definition of drama

"drama" in the noun sense

1. play, drama, dramatic play

a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage

"he wrote several plays but only one was produced on Broadway"

2. drama, dramatic event

an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional

3. drama

the literary genre of works intended for the theater

4. drama

the quality of being arresting or highly emotional

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Quotations for drama

The drama is the book of the people. [ Willmott ]

The drama's laws the drama's patrons give,
For we that live to please, must please to live. [ Dr. Johnson ]

A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man. [ Edwin Forrest ]

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. [ William Shakespeare ]

The real object of the drama is the exhibition of the human character. [ Macaulay ]

It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play. [ Hazlitt ]

The seat of wit, when one speaks as a man of the town and the world, is the playhouse. [ Steele ]

The drama is the looking-glass in which we see the hideousness of vice and the beauties of virtue. [ Frances Anne Kemble ]

Men of wit. learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays. [ Swift ]

I maintain, against the enemies of the stage, that patterns of piety, decently represented, may second the precepts. [ Dryden ]

There is so much of the glare and grief of life connected with the stage that it fills me with most solemn thoughts. [ Henry Giles ]

Dramatical or representative play is, as it were, a visible history; for it sets out the image of things as if they were present. [ Bacon ]

The propriety of thoughts and words, which are the hidden beauties of a play, are but confusedly judged in the vehemence of action. [ Dryden ]

On the Greek stage, a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day. [ Coleridge ]

The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight, and to let nothing appear but his characters. As soon as he attracts notice to his personal feelings, the illusion is broken. [ Macaulay ]

Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble, resent, rejoice, and are inflamed with all the variety of passions which actuate the several personages of the drama. [ Hume ]

The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and music are her handmaids. The costliest lights of a people's intellect burn at her show. All ages welcome her. [ Willmott ]

The tragedy of Hamlet is critically considered to be the masterpiece of dramatic poetry; and the tragedy of Hamlet is also, according to the testimony of every sort of manager, the play of all others which can invariably be depended on to fill a theater. [ G. A. Sala ]

Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures, faces, costumes; they are perfect in their organs, attitudes, manners; moreover they speak after their own characters, not ours; and we listen with surprise to what they say. [ Emerson ]

In Goethe's drama, Iphigenia defends her chastity, ascribing her firmness to the gods. No god hath said this: thine own heart hath spoken, answered Thoas, the king. They only speak to us through our heart, she replies. Have not I the right to hear them too? he rejoins. Thy storm of passion drowns the gentle whisper, adds the maiden, and closes all debate. [ Bartol ]

The dramatist, like the poet, is born, not made. There must be inspiration back of all true and permanent art, dramatic or otherwise, and art is universal: there is nothing national about it. Its field is humanity, and it takes in all the world; nor does anything else afford the refuge that is provided by it from all troubles and all the vicissitudes of life. [ William Winter ]

The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the impression of its liveliest wit or most passionate impulses, a thousand times adorning or feeling all as it goes; and you must read it, as the healthy instinct of audiences almost always does, if the critics will let them alone, with a grain of allowance, and a tendency to go away with as much of it for use as is necessary, and the rest for the luxury of laughter, pity, or poetical admiration. [ Leigh Hunt ]

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Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

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Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

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Words within the letters of drama

2 letter words in drama (5 words)

3 letter words in drama (5 words)

4 letter words in drama (2 words)

5 letter words in drama (1 word)

drama + 1 blank (5 words)

Word Growth involving drama

Shorter words in drama

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