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It is known as drama to the gender literary that had its origin there and far away in Ancient Greece, to the cinematographic genre that presents a story in which tragedy and drama are the resources and main axes of the story that is told and getting a little closer in time, more precisely to this time in which we live, this term is also used a lot, always respecting its connotation tragic, of course, to express to someone in an informal conversation, some kind of personal problem that he is going through, for example, it is used to say: I come with a drama of those ...

But referring to its strictly Greek origins, drama would be something like the synonym of theater, because it is defined as the presentation of actions through the representation of actors, through the use of dialogue and under the watchful eye of an audience.

What literary genre exclusively, the drama, in Ancient Greece, was divided into two: Tragedy and Comedy, this division being practically obsolete today because no one thinks of associating drama with comedy, nowadays they are understood as two autonomous and opposed genres. After this, another division of drama became, in genre

symbolic and realistic genre, leaving farce, melodrama and tragicomedy inscribed in the first and tragedy and comedy in the second.

Meanwhile, with regard to the cinematographic universe and as I mentioned above, a drama is characterized by being a story in which the serious, adult theme prevails and with some other seasoning sad. For example, repeatedly, in these the love story of a couple is told, because almost love will always be in the middle as an element of discord and affection, in line with fur collar narration of the conflicts that affect the protagonists will be done with the careful way of achieving the emotional response of the viewer.

And on the other hand, when dramatic, human passion, personal conflict and tragedy dominate the scene, we will be facing what is known as melodrama, the most important subgenre of drama.

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