Drama

1. Performance on the stage of imitations of human life, conduct, and sentiments. 2. Plays written to be thus produced.-Greek tragedy was furnished by Æschylus, Sophocles, and Euripi des; comedy by Aris toph anes. Roman comedy survives in Plautus and Terence. With the revival of learning the drama came to be cultivated in s., central, and w. Europe; the Scand in avian and Slavonic countries followed. Shakespeare, Molière, Goethe, and Schiller hold the highest rank; Italy, Spain, and France have produced other dramatists of fame. Oriental nations, as the Chinese and Hindus, have a drama peculiarly their own.