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What does drama mean?

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Noun
  1. A composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue
  2. Such a work for television, radio or the cinema (usually one that is not a comedy)
  3. Theatrical plays in general
  4. A situation in real life that has the characteristics of such a theatrical play
  5. (slang) Rumor, lying or exaggerated reaction to life events; melodrama; an angry dispute or scene; intrigue or spiteful interpersonal maneuvering.
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The Department of Theatre, Film and Television and Student Societies of the University of York put on public drama performances.
The story had at its centre a godfatherlike figure of larger-than-life stature, and all the elements of a tragic drama.
But Osterman is not merely a documenter, preserving the lost art form of the radio drama.
In addition to burlesque plays, operas and burlettas, the Italians invented two other species. of drama, pastoral and rustic plays.
She was not in the Princess' hair all the time nor did she watch her like a comic spy in a high drama of intrigue and discovery from a bhavai.
A personalized, melancholy statement with authentic drama, and a vividly Armstrongian open-horn finish.

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