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Drama

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Depiction o a scene frae shakespeare's pley Richard III

Drama is the specific mode o fiction representit in performance: a pley, opera, mime, ballet, etc., actin in a theatre, or on radio an telly. Considered as a genre o poetry in general, the dramatic mode haes been contrastit wi the epic an the leerical modes iver syne aristotle's poetics (c.335 bc)—the earliest wirk o dramatic theory.