dramatic literature
Theater's written form
Dramatic literature is written work intended for theatrical performance—plays, scripts, and related texts where story unfolds through dialogue and action rather than narration.
The term encompasses everything from Greek tragedy to contemporary screenplays.
Unlike prose fiction, dramatic literature is designed to be enacted: She specialized in dramatic literature from the Restoration period.
- tragedyDisastrous or sorrowful event
- comedyWork meant to amuse
- dialogueSpoken exchange between parties
- soliloquyDramatic speech to oneself
- catharsisPurification through emotional expression
epic theater · theater of the absurd · stagecraft · fourth wall · Macbeth · monologue · Antigone · hubris · tragic flaw · playwright · farce · Oedipus Rex · melodrama · Hamlet · plot · antagonist · one-act play · curtain
dramatic literaturenarrative fiction
Invented prose with plot
prose fiction · poetry · lyric poetry · epic poetry · novels