Drama is a prose or verse composition, especially one telling a serious story, that is intended for representation by actors impersonating the characters and performing the dialogue and action. Talking about drama, the first figure that popped out from our mind is "William Shakespeare".
-Shakespeare's Comedies and Histories-
Shakespeare's career in the theater begins with three plays about Henry IV, written between 1590 and 1592. It is more illuminating however, if we look at his first decade as a whole, dividing plays into three groups. There is a variety of plays, plays which might be regarded as apprentice works in which Shakespeare is learning his craft: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Titus Andronicus, The Comedy of Errors, Love's Labours Lost, and Romeo and Juliet.
Plays are traditionally divided into comedies and tragedies. Tragedy has its origins on Greek drama, specifically in the plays of the Athenian dramatists such as Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. The central concept is that a major character is afflicted by some kind of suffering, but preserves his or her dignity in the face of this affliction.
In tragedy, the hero faces the worst the world has to offer, but there is no sense of compensation beyond the present. Shakespeare's greatest play, "Hamlet" is one of tragedies . Hamlet's uncle, Claudius, has married Hamlet's mother, Gertrude, just a month after the death of her husband. In addition, Claudius has claimed the throne, ignoring the rights of his nephew. Hamlet discovers his father was murdered by Claudius. After a great deal of procrastination Hamlet kills Claudius.
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