modern drama
Today's stage plays
Modern drama is theater from roughly the late 19th century onward, beginning with playwrights like Ibsen and Chekhov who rejected melodrama for psychological realism and social criticism.
The term encompasses various movements—naturalism, expressionism, absurdism—united by departures from classical conventions: a course in modern drama from Ibsen to Beckett.
- Arthur MillerAmerican dramatist, mid-century
- fourth wallInvisible stage-audience barrier
- Tennessee WilliamsAmerican Southern Gothic playwright
- ExistentialismPhilosophy of radical freedom
- breaking the fourth wallAcknowledging fictional boundaries
Anton Chekhov · Henrik Ibsen · Samuel Beckett · Symbolism · August Wilson · Bertolt Brecht · Realism · Postmodernism · playwright · stage directions · dramatic monologue · method acting · living room set · tragedy · Miller · Ibsen · performance · stage
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- theatreBroadway, acting, theatre, stage, actor
- theater historyGreek tragedy, vaudeville, William Shakespeare, Drury Lane, Christopher Marlowe
- Asian Dramaswuxia, miniseries, anthology series, sequel series, original series
- drama termstragedy, comedy, catharsis, theater, stage
- Korean dramamelodrama, Hallyu, miniseries, chaebol, mini series
modern dramaclassical drama
Ancient theatrical tradition
Greek tragedy · ancient Greek drama · classical theatre · Elizabethan drama · mystery plays
modern dramafarce
Absurd, laughable situation
melodrama · vaudeville · burlesque · pantomime · musical theatre