Drama

Drama• Which either may be written in poetry or in prose, is a literary form which is intended primarily for enactment on a stage. An individual dramatic work was known as a play.
• The great plays of the past have been partially or entirely verse, but the tendency among modern dramatists has been to write in prose.
• A play usually divided into a number of acts; each act maybe divided into scenes.
• Classical plays are usually either tragedies or comedies.
• A tragedy is play with a great, noble hero who possesses some major flaw of character. The plot often turns on an act committed by the hero against the gods or the moral order, for which he is duly punished.