Definition of drama in English:

drama

noun ˈdrɑːməˈdrɑmə

1A play for theatre, radio, or television.
戏；（舞台、广播或电视）剧
a gritty urban drama about growing up in Harlem
一出如实反映都市生活阴暗面的关于在哈莱姆黑人居住区成长经历的戏。
Example sentencesExamples
- But what this reading underplays is the extent to which the play is also a revenge drama.
- One of several television dramas on nuclear issues in the 1980s, Threads is arguably the most visceral.
- Anyone regularly watching the various hospital dramas on television may have a slightly biased view of serious illness.
- His screenplay was written specifically as a feature, not as a series of short television dramas.
- He scowls at the drama on the television and starts fiddling with the remote control.
- TWO interesting Latin American fact-based dramas are scheduled for radio this weekend.
- Since then he has clocked up a number of small parts in minor television dramas and films.
- A number of films, dramas and television serials pepper us with these everyday.
- Radio too picked up the story, first in editorial commentary and then as a radio drama.
- So I bought CDs of radio dramas from overseas and played them at home, and then later in the car.
- She's produced single dramas for Radio 4 and youth dramas for local radio.
- The actor won his second Bafta of the year on Sunday night for his performance in the television drama.
- It is a television drama from Japan that is based on a classic novel of the same name.
- Egyptian films and television dramas are avidly consumed not just in Egypt but all over the Arab world.
- Snippets of music, radio dramas and newsreels play in the background and laundry hangs over the audience.
- The play is amusing and serious, and is a drama as well as being a musical of sorts.
- He grinned to himself as he realized that the conversation in the back of his van sounded like an espionage drama on the radio.
- In addition to her contribution to music, she acted in a number of television dramas and feature films.
- Television dramas were usually adaptations of stage plays, and invariably about upper classes.
- Her next step into the world of acting was performing in television dramas in Delhi, with occasional roles in stage plays and operas.
Synonyms
play, show, piece, theatrical work, spectacle, dramatization
screenplay
1. 1.1mass noun Plays as a genre or style of literature.
  （作为文学作品样式的）戏剧
  Renaissance drama
  文艺复兴时期的戏剧。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The second half of the evening was filled with drama, comedy and mime from the senior classes.
  News, soaps and home-grown comedy and drama are considered the most important genres
  In his case the innovation was even a new style of combined music and drama that we now know as opera.
  She already had a degree and a diploma in drama, and at the age of 47, she got her Equity card.
  The movies scheduled to be shown come from many genres including drama, comedy and thrillers.
  At A-level, he hopes to take English literature, economics, drama and sports studies.
  There were a range of optional subjects like Australian and American literature and drama.
  The show is a refreshing change, and brings a wholly new element to the medical drama genre.
  If there's a genre lower on the commercial totem pole than drama, it might be theatre criticism.
  But in the world of drama, he towers above other contemporaries.
  His first major book mixed journalism with drama, semiotics and literary criticism.
  Bringing modern styles to Chinese drama, they are cultivating their own fans.
  A bleak account of a nuclear attack on Kent and its aftermath, mixing drama with documentary styles.
  She helps pay for her drama course at RADA by hiring out her services as a new form of advertising.
  He was a pioneer in various genres including satire, literary criticism, and drama.
  We all know the genre, the made-for-TV drama, loosely or tightly based on a sensational news story.
  I teach a course on black drama every other year and always include one of his plays.
  She was a dynamic, passionate, and caring woman, who loved drama and literature as much as medicine.
  The appeal of such romantic drama, of course, is by no means confined to Australia.
  In literature and drama lessons there is an increasing exposure to unsavoury material and language.
2. 1.2mass noun The activity of acting.
  teachers who use drama are working in partnership with pupils
  as modifier drama school
  Example sentencesExamples
  My drama teacher made us do monologues from Animal Farm, which is a sure-fire way of ruining any book.
  He said a number of activities such as drama and cultural dances had been organised during the event.
  The money will go towards the school's planned amphitheatre and other drama activities.
  He said the ground floor would have a sliding door to make separate areas for activities such as drama productions.
  For her audition she had to recite two drama pieces and perform three song and dance numbers.
  Everyone is welcome to the acting workshops, regardless of drama experience.
  A full schedule of dance, drama and art activities is planned for the coming year.
  The play had been written and produced by the school's drama teacher.
  For a number of years now, he has worked with young carers in the area offering drama workshops and activities.
  Inspired by his drama teacher, he began to perform his own sketches and shows.
  They are vital, they are fresh, they are not cliquey and most of all they have heart for drama and acting.
  Then, in the late afternoon and evenings, it is used by youngsters in music clubs, drama groups and other activities.
  She has choreographed for ballet, musical comedy, and drama productions.
  She landed the TV role only weeks after leaving drama school, beating off hundreds of other hopefuls.
  Every evening there were activities like drama, art, swimming, sports or lectures.
  Edinburgh's official drama programme normally improves as it goes along.
  Its sub groups included clubs for activities like drama, art and crafts, and country dancing.
  However talented dancer that she is, she soon became a dance and drama teacher at the school.
  She is a former actress and drama teacher who lives not far from where I live now.
  One such is a professional actress and former drama teacher who directs for a hobby.
  Synonyms
  acting, the theatre, the stage, the performing arts, dramatic art, dramatics, dramaturgy, stagecraft, theatricals, theatrics, the thespian art, show business
  performing, performance, playing a role, appearing on stage
  informal the boards, treading the boards, show biz
  rare thespianism, histrionics
2An exciting, emotional, or unexpected event or circumstance.
戏剧性事件；戏剧性场面；戏剧性（或效果）
a hostage drama
把人扣为人质的戏剧性事件。
mass noun an afternoon of high drama at Wembley
在温布利的一个极具戏剧性的下午。
Example sentencesExamples
- One robber leapt over the counter's security screen and let the other through during the drama yesterday afternoon.
- The copy would be more vivid, pack a bigger impact and communicate better the drama of the event.
- It takes a look at the key events that saw the drama unfold.
- Intimate cinematography and the drama of events unfolding makes for intense, absorbing viewing.
- It's observation of character and situation is quite nice, but the drama is not only devoid of drama but also subtext.
- I really enjoyed getting my head around the drama and the emotions.
- Mother arrived on Friday, not without drama, of course and stayed until this morning.
- You watch the emotional drama taking place inside and outside without getting caught up in it.
- We experienced our share of adventures and dramas before putting three members of the team on the summit.
- That was only the start of the dramas for the racing squad.
- The drama started on the parade lap when he retired to the pits with a broken driveshaft.
- No drama of course except for the popping of the exhaust and the head-turning styling of the car.
- The drama behind the scenes at most events was almost more exciting than what the audience witnessed.
- The drama of the event had the staffers buzzing but drew shrugs from the children.
- Such anticipation as I had was more pleasure than pain, and the event itself passed without drama or incident.
- The drama is in the emotional defences each soldier employs to survive the horrors they face.
- Over the past 65 years Bromley Little Theatre has had more dramas than a Shakespeare play.
- These little incidents made me think about the countless dramas and crises that happen to people every day.
- The drama of that event is so perfectly evoked you can feel the fear in the room and hear bones crunch as the executioner's axe strikes home.
- This is all it takes for Daniel to find himself beaten and alone, a hostage in the drama of war.
Synonyms
catastrophe, calamity, cataclysm, emergency, disaster

Phrases

make a drama out of

informal Exaggerate the importance of (a minor problem or incident)
〈非正式〉把（小问题或小事）戏剧化，将…夸大其辞
Gwyneth makes such a drama out of things
Example sentencesExamples
- To misquote an old advertisement for an insurance company, I always make a drama out of a crisis.
- However, Sarah was not about to make a drama out of that crisis.
- The Police inspector doesn't make a drama out of a crisis - despite having had more than his fair share during a distinguished career.
- That way, when the car breaks down, the washing machine floods the kitchen floor or the telly goes ping you don't need to make a drama out of a crisis.
- It was a matter of becoming aware of the mad aspects of myself, without making a drama out of it, and while keeping my feet on the ground.
- Nobody makes a drama out of a crisis quite like that team, and they might have good reason to after tonight.
- It certainly doesn't seem like there's much time to make a drama out of the Illinois senate race.
- Now that we are destroying false idols, the world has made a drama out of it.
- What's the point in making a drama out of nothing?
- His first song was played on his knees, pulling the mic down as if he were skulking in the corner of the room, wanting to play, but not make a drama out of it.
Synonyms
incident, scene, spectacle, crisis

Origin

Early 16th century: via late Latin from Greek drama, from dran 'do, act'.

This came via late Latin from Greek drama, from dran ‘do, act’ source also of drastic (late 17th century). The Latin dramatis personae has been used since the mid 18th century for a list of the characters in a play.

Rhymes

amah, armour (US armor), Atacama, Brahma, Bramah, charmer, cyclorama, dharma, diorama, disarmer, embalmer, farmer, Kama, karma, lama, llama, Matsuyama, panorama, Parma, pranayama, Rama, Samar, Surinamer, Vasco da Gama, Yama, Yokohama

Definition of drama in US English:

drama

nounˈdrɑməˈdrämə

1A play for theater, radio, or television.
戏；（舞台、广播或电视）剧
a gritty urban drama about growing up in Harlem
一出如实反映都市生活阴暗面的关于在哈莱姆黑人居住区成长经历的戏。
Example sentencesExamples
- Television dramas were usually adaptations of stage plays, and invariably about upper classes.
- Since then he has clocked up a number of small parts in minor television dramas and films.
- It is a television drama from Japan that is based on a classic novel of the same name.
- In addition to her contribution to music, she acted in a number of television dramas and feature films.
- Anyone regularly watching the various hospital dramas on television may have a slightly biased view of serious illness.
- His screenplay was written specifically as a feature, not as a series of short television dramas.
- TWO interesting Latin American fact-based dramas are scheduled for radio this weekend.
- Her next step into the world of acting was performing in television dramas in Delhi, with occasional roles in stage plays and operas.
- Snippets of music, radio dramas and newsreels play in the background and laundry hangs over the audience.
- Radio too picked up the story, first in editorial commentary and then as a radio drama.
- He scowls at the drama on the television and starts fiddling with the remote control.
- But what this reading underplays is the extent to which the play is also a revenge drama.
- A number of films, dramas and television serials pepper us with these everyday.
- She's produced single dramas for Radio 4 and youth dramas for local radio.
- So I bought CDs of radio dramas from overseas and played them at home, and then later in the car.
- Egyptian films and television dramas are avidly consumed not just in Egypt but all over the Arab world.
- The actor won his second Bafta of the year on Sunday night for his performance in the television drama.
- He grinned to himself as he realized that the conversation in the back of his van sounded like an espionage drama on the radio.
- The play is amusing and serious, and is a drama as well as being a musical of sorts.
- One of several television dramas on nuclear issues in the 1980s, Threads is arguably the most visceral.
Synonyms
play, show, piece, theatrical work, spectacle, dramatization
1. 1.1 Drama as a genre or style of literature.
  （作为文学作品样式的）戏剧
  Renaissance drama
  文艺复兴时期的戏剧。
  Example sentencesExamples
  His first major book mixed journalism with drama, semiotics and literary criticism.
  At A-level, he hopes to take English literature, economics, drama and sports studies.
  I teach a course on black drama every other year and always include one of his plays.
  He was a pioneer in various genres including satire, literary criticism, and drama.
  She already had a degree and a diploma in drama, and at the age of 47, she got her Equity card.
  News, soaps and home-grown comedy and drama are considered the most important genres
  The movies scheduled to be shown come from many genres including drama, comedy and thrillers.
  We all know the genre, the made-for-TV drama, loosely or tightly based on a sensational news story.
  The show is a refreshing change, and brings a wholly new element to the medical drama genre.
  There were a range of optional subjects like Australian and American literature and drama.
  Bringing modern styles to Chinese drama, they are cultivating their own fans.
  She was a dynamic, passionate, and caring woman, who loved drama and literature as much as medicine.
  A bleak account of a nuclear attack on Kent and its aftermath, mixing drama with documentary styles.
  The second half of the evening was filled with drama, comedy and mime from the senior classes.
  She helps pay for her drama course at RADA by hiring out her services as a new form of advertising.
  In literature and drama lessons there is an increasing exposure to unsavoury material and language.
  In his case the innovation was even a new style of combined music and drama that we now know as opera.
  But in the world of drama, he towers above other contemporaries.
  If there's a genre lower on the commercial totem pole than drama, it might be theatre criticism.
  The appeal of such romantic drama, of course, is by no means confined to Australia.
2An exciting, emotional, or unexpected series of events or set of circumstances.
戏剧性事件；戏剧性场面；戏剧性（或效果）
a hostage drama
把人扣为人质的戏剧性事件。
an afternoon of high drama at Fenway Park
在温布利的一个极具戏剧性的下午。
Example sentencesExamples
- The drama started on the parade lap when he retired to the pits with a broken driveshaft.
- That was only the start of the dramas for the racing squad.
- Mother arrived on Friday, not without drama, of course and stayed until this morning.
- Such anticipation as I had was more pleasure than pain, and the event itself passed without drama or incident.
- Intimate cinematography and the drama of events unfolding makes for intense, absorbing viewing.
- The copy would be more vivid, pack a bigger impact and communicate better the drama of the event.
- These little incidents made me think about the countless dramas and crises that happen to people every day.
- I really enjoyed getting my head around the drama and the emotions.
- The drama of that event is so perfectly evoked you can feel the fear in the room and hear bones crunch as the executioner's axe strikes home.
- You watch the emotional drama taking place inside and outside without getting caught up in it.
- This is all it takes for Daniel to find himself beaten and alone, a hostage in the drama of war.
- The drama behind the scenes at most events was almost more exciting than what the audience witnessed.
- We experienced our share of adventures and dramas before putting three members of the team on the summit.
- Over the past 65 years Bromley Little Theatre has had more dramas than a Shakespeare play.
- It's observation of character and situation is quite nice, but the drama is not only devoid of drama but also subtext.
- No drama of course except for the popping of the exhaust and the head-turning styling of the car.
- The drama is in the emotional defences each soldier employs to survive the horrors they face.
- The drama of the event had the staffers buzzing but drew shrugs from the children.
- One robber leapt over the counter's security screen and let the other through during the drama yesterday afternoon.
- It takes a look at the key events that saw the drama unfold.
Synonyms
catastrophe, calamity, cataclysm, emergency, disaster

Origin

Early 16th century: via late Latin from Greek drama, from dran ‘do, act’.

词汇	drama
释义	Definition of drama in English: drama noun ˈdrɑːməˈdrɑmə 1A play for theatre, radio, or television. 戏；（舞台、广播或电视）剧 a gritty urban drama about growing up in Harlem 一出如实反映都市生活阴暗面的关于在哈莱姆黑人居住区成长经历的戏。 Example sentencesExamples But what this reading underplays is the extent to which the play is also a revenge drama. One of several television dramas on nuclear issues in the 1980s, Threads is arguably the most visceral. Anyone regularly watching the various hospital dramas on television may have a slightly biased view of serious illness. His screenplay was written specifically as a feature, not as a series of short television dramas. He scowls at the drama on the television and starts fiddling with the remote control. TWO interesting Latin American fact-based dramas are scheduled for radio this weekend. Since then he has clocked up a number of small parts in minor television dramas and films. A number of films, dramas and television serials pepper us with these everyday. Radio too picked up the story, first in editorial commentary and then as a radio drama. So I bought CDs of radio dramas from overseas and played them at home, and then later in the car. She's produced single dramas for Radio 4 and youth dramas for local radio. The actor won his second Bafta of the year on Sunday night for his performance in the television drama. It is a television drama from Japan that is based on a classic novel of the same name. Egyptian films and television dramas are avidly consumed not just in Egypt but all over the Arab world. Snippets of music, radio dramas and newsreels play in the background and laundry hangs over the audience. The play is amusing and serious, and is a drama as well as being a musical of sorts. He grinned to himself as he realized that the conversation in the back of his van sounded like an espionage drama on the radio. In addition to her contribution to music, she acted in a number of television dramas and feature films. Television dramas were usually adaptations of stage plays, and invariably about upper classes. Her next step into the world of acting was performing in television dramas in Delhi, with occasional roles in stage plays and operas. Synonyms play, show, piece, theatrical work, spectacle, dramatization screenplay 1.1mass noun Plays as a genre or style of literature. （作为文学作品样式的）戏剧 Renaissance drama 文艺复兴时期的戏剧。 Example sentencesExamples The second half of the evening was filled with drama, comedy and mime from the senior classes. News, soaps and home-grown comedy and drama are considered the most important genres In his case the innovation was even a new style of combined music and drama that we now know as opera. She already had a degree and a diploma in drama, and at the age of 47, she got her Equity card. The movies scheduled to be shown come from many genres including drama, comedy and thrillers. At A-level, he hopes to take English literature, economics, drama and sports studies. There were a range of optional subjects like Australian and American literature and drama. The show is a refreshing change, and brings a wholly new element to the medical drama genre. If there's a genre lower on the commercial totem pole than drama, it might be theatre criticism. But in the world of drama, he towers above other contemporaries. His first major book mixed journalism with drama, semiotics and literary criticism. Bringing modern styles to Chinese drama, they are cultivating their own fans. A bleak account of a nuclear attack on Kent and its aftermath, mixing drama with documentary styles. She helps pay for her drama course at RADA by hiring out her services as a new form of advertising. He was a pioneer in various genres including satire, literary criticism, and drama. We all know the genre, the made-for-TV drama, loosely or tightly based on a sensational news story. I teach a course on black drama every other year and always include one of his plays. She was a dynamic, passionate, and caring woman, who loved drama and literature as much as medicine. The appeal of such romantic drama, of course, is by no means confined to Australia. In literature and drama lessons there is an increasing exposure to unsavoury material and language. 1.2mass noun The activity of acting. teachers who use drama are working in partnership with pupils as modifier drama school Example sentencesExamples My drama teacher made us do monologues from Animal Farm, which is a sure-fire way of ruining any book. He said a number of activities such as drama and cultural dances had been organised during the event. The money will go towards the school's planned amphitheatre and other drama activities. He said the ground floor would have a sliding door to make separate areas for activities such as drama productions. For her audition she had to recite two drama pieces and perform three song and dance numbers. Everyone is welcome to the acting workshops, regardless of drama experience. A full schedule of dance, drama and art activities is planned for the coming year. The play had been written and produced by the school's drama teacher. For a number of years now, he has worked with young carers in the area offering drama workshops and activities. Inspired by his drama teacher, he began to perform his own sketches and shows. They are vital, they are fresh, they are not cliquey and most of all they have heart for drama and acting. Then, in the late afternoon and evenings, it is used by youngsters in music clubs, drama groups and other activities. She has choreographed for ballet, musical comedy, and drama productions. She landed the TV role only weeks after leaving drama school, beating off hundreds of other hopefuls. Every evening there were activities like drama, art, swimming, sports or lectures. Edinburgh's official drama programme normally improves as it goes along. Its sub groups included clubs for activities like drama, art and crafts, and country dancing. However talented dancer that she is, she soon became a dance and drama teacher at the school. She is a former actress and drama teacher who lives not far from where I live now. One such is a professional actress and former drama teacher who directs for a hobby. Synonyms acting, the theatre, the stage, the performing arts, dramatic art, dramatics, dramaturgy, stagecraft, theatricals, theatrics, the thespian art, show business performing, performance, playing a role, appearing on stage informal the boards, treading the boards, show biz rare thespianism, histrionics 2An exciting, emotional, or unexpected event or circumstance. 戏剧性事件；戏剧性场面；戏剧性（或效果） a hostage drama 把人扣为人质的戏剧性事件。 mass noun an afternoon of high drama at Wembley 在温布利的一个极具戏剧性的下午。 Example sentencesExamples One robber leapt over the counter's security screen and let the other through during the drama yesterday afternoon. The copy would be more vivid, pack a bigger impact and communicate better the drama of the event. It takes a look at the key events that saw the drama unfold. Intimate cinematography and the drama of events unfolding makes for intense, absorbing viewing. It's observation of character and situation is quite nice, but the drama is not only devoid of drama but also subtext. I really enjoyed getting my head around the drama and the emotions. Mother arrived on Friday, not without drama, of course and stayed until this morning. You watch the emotional drama taking place inside and outside without getting caught up in it. We experienced our share of adventures and dramas before putting three members of the team on the summit. That was only the start of the dramas for the racing squad. The drama started on the parade lap when he retired to the pits with a broken driveshaft. No drama of course except for the popping of the exhaust and the head-turning styling of the car. The drama behind the scenes at most events was almost more exciting than what the audience witnessed. The drama of the event had the staffers buzzing but drew shrugs from the children. Such anticipation as I had was more pleasure than pain, and the event itself passed without drama or incident. The drama is in the emotional defences each soldier employs to survive the horrors they face. Over the past 65 years Bromley Little Theatre has had more dramas than a Shakespeare play. These little incidents made me think about the countless dramas and crises that happen to people every day. The drama of that event is so perfectly evoked you can feel the fear in the room and hear bones crunch as the executioner's axe strikes home. This is all it takes for Daniel to find himself beaten and alone, a hostage in the drama of war. Synonyms catastrophe, calamity, cataclysm, emergency, disaster Phrases make a drama out of informal Exaggerate the importance of (a minor problem or incident) 〈非正式〉把（小问题或小事）戏剧化，将…夸大其辞 Gwyneth makes such a drama out of things Example sentencesExamples To misquote an old advertisement for an insurance company, I always make a drama out of a crisis. However, Sarah was not about to make a drama out of that crisis. The Police inspector doesn't make a drama out of a crisis - despite having had more than his fair share during a distinguished career. That way, when the car breaks down, the washing machine floods the kitchen floor or the telly goes ping you don't need to make a drama out of a crisis. It was a matter of becoming aware of the mad aspects of myself, without making a drama out of it, and while keeping my feet on the ground. Nobody makes a drama out of a crisis quite like that team, and they might have good reason to after tonight. It certainly doesn't seem like there's much time to make a drama out of the Illinois senate race. Now that we are destroying false idols, the world has made a drama out of it. What's the point in making a drama out of nothing? His first song was played on his knees, pulling the mic down as if he were skulking in the corner of the room, wanting to play, but not make a drama out of it. Synonyms incident, scene, spectacle, crisis Origin Early 16th century: via late Latin from Greek drama, from dran 'do, act'. This came via late Latin from Greek drama, from dran ‘do, act’ source also of drastic (late 17th century). The Latin dramatis personae has been used since the mid 18th century for a list of the characters in a play. Rhymes amah, armour (US armor), Atacama, Brahma, Bramah, charmer, cyclorama, dharma, diorama, disarmer, embalmer, farmer, Kama, karma, lama, llama, Matsuyama, panorama, Parma, pranayama, Rama, Samar, Surinamer, Vasco da Gama, Yama, Yokohama noun.1 phr. Definition of drama in US English: drama nounˈdrɑməˈdrämə 1A play for theater, radio, or television. 戏；（舞台、广播或电视）剧 a gritty urban drama about growing up in Harlem 一出如实反映都市生活阴暗面的关于在哈莱姆黑人居住区成长经历的戏。 Example sentencesExamples Television dramas were usually adaptations of stage plays, and invariably about upper classes. Since then he has clocked up a number of small parts in minor television dramas and films. It is a television drama from Japan that is based on a classic novel of the same name. In addition to her contribution to music, she acted in a number of television dramas and feature films. Anyone regularly watching the various hospital dramas on television may have a slightly biased view of serious illness. His screenplay was written specifically as a feature, not as a series of short television dramas. TWO interesting Latin American fact-based dramas are scheduled for radio this weekend. Her next step into the world of acting was performing in television dramas in Delhi, with occasional roles in stage plays and operas. Snippets of music, radio dramas and newsreels play in the background and laundry hangs over the audience. Radio too picked up the story, first in editorial commentary and then as a radio drama. He scowls at the drama on the television and starts fiddling with the remote control. But what this reading underplays is the extent to which the play is also a revenge drama. A number of films, dramas and television serials pepper us with these everyday. She's produced single dramas for Radio 4 and youth dramas for local radio. So I bought CDs of radio dramas from overseas and played them at home, and then later in the car. Egyptian films and television dramas are avidly consumed not just in Egypt but all over the Arab world. The actor won his second Bafta of the year on Sunday night for his performance in the television drama. He grinned to himself as he realized that the conversation in the back of his van sounded like an espionage drama on the radio. The play is amusing and serious, and is a drama as well as being a musical of sorts. One of several television dramas on nuclear issues in the 1980s, Threads is arguably the most visceral. Synonyms play, show, piece, theatrical work, spectacle, dramatization 1.1 Drama as a genre or style of literature. （作为文学作品样式的）戏剧 Renaissance drama 文艺复兴时期的戏剧。 Example sentencesExamples His first major book mixed journalism with drama, semiotics and literary criticism. At A-level, he hopes to take English literature, economics, drama and sports studies. I teach a course on black drama every other year and always include one of his plays. He was a pioneer in various genres including satire, literary criticism, and drama. She already had a degree and a diploma in drama, and at the age of 47, she got her Equity card. News, soaps and home-grown comedy and drama are considered the most important genres The movies scheduled to be shown come from many genres including drama, comedy and thrillers. We all know the genre, the made-for-TV drama, loosely or tightly based on a sensational news story. The show is a refreshing change, and brings a wholly new element to the medical drama genre. There were a range of optional subjects like Australian and American literature and drama. Bringing modern styles to Chinese drama, they are cultivating their own fans. She was a dynamic, passionate, and caring woman, who loved drama and literature as much as medicine. A bleak account of a nuclear attack on Kent and its aftermath, mixing drama with documentary styles. The second half of the evening was filled with drama, comedy and mime from the senior classes. She helps pay for her drama course at RADA by hiring out her services as a new form of advertising. In literature and drama lessons there is an increasing exposure to unsavoury material and language. In his case the innovation was even a new style of combined music and drama that we now know as opera. But in the world of drama, he towers above other contemporaries. If there's a genre lower on the commercial totem pole than drama, it might be theatre criticism. The appeal of such romantic drama, of course, is by no means confined to Australia. 2An exciting, emotional, or unexpected series of events or set of circumstances. 戏剧性事件；戏剧性场面；戏剧性（或效果） a hostage drama 把人扣为人质的戏剧性事件。 an afternoon of high drama at Fenway Park 在温布利的一个极具戏剧性的下午。 Example sentencesExamples The drama started on the parade lap when he retired to the pits with a broken driveshaft. That was only the start of the dramas for the racing squad. Mother arrived on Friday, not without drama, of course and stayed until this morning. Such anticipation as I had was more pleasure than pain, and the event itself passed without drama or incident. Intimate cinematography and the drama of events unfolding makes for intense, absorbing viewing. The copy would be more vivid, pack a bigger impact and communicate better the drama of the event. These little incidents made me think about the countless dramas and crises that happen to people every day. I really enjoyed getting my head around the drama and the emotions. The drama of that event is so perfectly evoked you can feel the fear in the room and hear bones crunch as the executioner's axe strikes home. You watch the emotional drama taking place inside and outside without getting caught up in it. This is all it takes for Daniel to find himself beaten and alone, a hostage in the drama of war. The drama behind the scenes at most events was almost more exciting than what the audience witnessed. We experienced our share of adventures and dramas before putting three members of the team on the summit. Over the past 65 years Bromley Little Theatre has had more dramas than a Shakespeare play. It's observation of character and situation is quite nice, but the drama is not only devoid of drama but also subtext. No drama of course except for the popping of the exhaust and the head-turning styling of the car. The drama is in the emotional defences each soldier employs to survive the horrors they face. The drama of the event had the staffers buzzing but drew shrugs from the children. One robber leapt over the counter's security screen and let the other through during the drama yesterday afternoon. It takes a look at the key events that saw the drama unfold. Synonyms catastrophe, calamity, cataclysm, emergency, disaster Origin Early 16th century: via late Latin from Greek drama, from dran ‘do, act’.
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