Italian drama
La Scala fare
Italian drama refers to theatrical works originating in Italy, or more loosely, to melodramatic behavior stereotypically associated with Italian temperament—passionate outbursts, exaggerated emotions, elaborate hand gestures: Every family dinner turns into Italian drama with my in-laws.
The phrase often implies that the theatrics are performative rather than genuinely felt.
- Commedia dell'arteItalian improvised masked theater
- street theaterOutdoor public dramatization
- passionIntense emotional drive
- love triangleThree-person romantic entanglement
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
Baroque · Opera · mask · stage · Medieval · Betrayal · blood feud · laughter · Realism · Fellini · la dolce vita · Symbolism · amore · teatro · gestures · grand gesture · spectacle · vendetta
- literaturebooks, book, fiction, poetry, stories
- TV dramasTV series, miniseries, family saga, melodrama, soap opera
- Italian LiteratureDante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Dante Alighieri
- theaterplays, stage, play, onstage, acting
- dramasmelodrama
- literary criticismliterary theory, literary analysis, close reading, New Criticism, criticism
Italian dramaChinese opera
Traditional staged musical drama
English drama · Scandinavian drama · American theater · Greek drama · French drama
Italian dramaItalian cinema
Film from Rome's studios
Italian literature · Italian poetry · Italian music · Italian painting · Italian architecture