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The dramatic or the gender Dramatic is the one that represents an episode starring different characters who express themselves through the dialogue.

This genre had its origin in Ancient Greece and at the beginning these representations were linked to the cult of the Greek god Dionysus.
Dramatic comes from drama and corresponds to any literary or fictional creation in which an author or playwright develops an event in one or more episodes, with one or more characters and often in the presence of dialogue and actions dramatic. More commonly, the dramatic genre is associated with the theater and the performing arts. But one can also speak of drama in literary, cinematographic or other works.

The conditions inherent to this genre are its public representation in front of an audience, the live action that is witnessed by the viewer, dialogue and dramatization through scenery, costumes, gestures and other elements accessories.

The forms within the dramatic genre are the

tragedy (recounts dramatic episodes that occurred to famous people in order to produce the compassion in the viewer), comedy (which uses comic elements and the ridicule of the characters to provoke laughter) and the tragicomedy (mixture of both two).

The dramatic can also be classified in discursive forms such as dialogue, monologue, the soliloquy and the aside.

Throughout history, in addition, other theatrical forms have emerged, such as the appetizer, the farce, the melodrama and the play didactics.

On the other hand, dramatic or theatrical styles have also developed, such as the theater of the the absurd, the existentialist, the surrealist, the realist, the epic, the social, the agitated, the cruelty, that of Vanguard or the experimental.

Many authors have excelled in this genre such as William Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht and Arthur Miller.

Themes in Dramatic