Drama
URI(s)
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
Collection Membership(s)
Form
- Drama
Variants
- Dramas
- Filmed plays
- Plays
- Playscripts
- Scripts, Stage
- Stage plays
- Stage scripts
- Televised plays
- Theatrical works
Use For
Broader Terms
- Literature
Narrower Terms
- Acting editions
- Action and adventure plays
- Alternative histories (Drama)
- Biographical drama
- Bisexual drama
- Christmas plays
- Comédies-ballets
- Comedy plays
- Coming-of-age drama
- Dance drama
- Detective and mystery plays
- Dialect drama
- Didactic drama
- Domestic drama
- Drames à clef
- Duologues
- Environmental drama
- Episodic plays
- Erotic drama
- Experimental drama
- Fantasy drama
- Fastnachtsspiele
- Folk drama
- Gay drama
- Historical drama
- Horror plays
- Interludes (Drama)
- Kabuki plays
- Kamishibai plays
- Kōwaka drama
- Kuai shu
- Legal drama (Literature)
- Lesbian drama
- Librettos
- Liederspiels
- Likē drama
- Living newspapers
- Loas
- Machine plays
- Magic realist plays
- Masques
- Medical drama
- Melodramas (Drama)
- Memory plays
- Metadramas
- Mime plays
- Monodramas (Literature)
- Monologues (Drama)
- Monster drama
- Mythological plays
- Nō plays
- One-act plays
- Paranormal drama
- Participatory drama
- Pastoral drama
- Picaresque drama
- Political plays
- Problem plays
- Puppet plays
- Radio plays
- Religious drama
- Romantic plays
- Science fiction plays
- Screenplays
- Sports plays
- Superhero plays
- Tan ci
- Television plays
- Theatrical adaptations
- Thriller plays
- Tragedies (Drama)
- Tragicomedies
- Transgender drama
- Utopian plays
- Verbatim theater
- Verse drama
- War drama
- Western plays
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Earlier Established Forms
- Filmed plays
- Televised plays
Sources
- found: LCSH, Oct. 22, 2014(Drama. UF Plays. BT Literature)
- found: Abrams, M. A glossary of literary terms, c1999(Drama. The form of composition designed for performance in the theater, in which actors take the roles of the characters, perform the indicated action, and utter the written dialogue. (The common alternative name for a dramatic composition is a play.))
- found: Quinn, E. A dictionary of literary and thematic terms, c1999(drama: In its broadest sense, any work in which actors assume roles before an audience, either in a theater or on radio or television. Drama is a major literary genre, frequently subdivided into the categories of tragedy, comedy, and tragicomedy; play: A composition written to be performed)
- found: The American heritage dictionary of the English language, ©2000, updated 2009, via WWW, Mar. 11, 2014(theatrical, noun 1. Stage performances or a stage performance, especially by amateurs. Often used in the plural.)
- found: Oxford dictionaries website, July 11, 2014(play, noun 3. A dramatic work for the stage or to be broadcast. Synonyms: drama, theatrical work; screenplay, comedy, tragedy; production, performance, show, sketch)
- found: Merriam-Webster online, July 11, 2014(play noun 2. a written work in which the story is told through speech and action that is intended to be acted out on stage. Synonyms: drama, dramatization. Related Words: interlude, playlet; comedy, comedy drama, docudrama, dramedy, melodrama, monodrama, musical, musical comedy, psychodrama, tragedy, tragicomedy; magnum opus, opus, work; adaptation)
- found: Wynston, G.P. Adapting stage drama for radio : techniques of preparing stage scripts for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio production, 1976.
- found: Vickers, S. Drama scripts for people with special needs, 2005.
- found: Hirsch, M.E. Chinese shadow theater playscripts, 1998.
- found: Chayefsky, P. The stage plays, 1995.
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