# Drama

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Category: Literature
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Updated: 2026-05-15T22:18:33.122Z
Tags: literature, drama

## Summary

Drama is the only literary form whose finished version is a live performance. Everything else — the text, the stage directions, the script — is preparation. Key sections include: Dr a ma.; Opening The play is the event.; I · First principles The Poetics.; II The Athenian three.; III Comedy.; IV Roman drama.; V Sanskrit theatre.; VI The medieval stage.; VII Noh & Kabuki.; VIII Commedia dell'arte..

## Slide Outline

1. Dr a ma.
2. Opening The play is the event.
3. I · First principles The Poetics.
4. II The Athenian three.
5. III Comedy.
6. IV Roman drama.
7. V Sanskrit theatre.
8. VI The medieval stage.
9. VII Noh & Kabuki.
10. VIII Commedia dell'arte.
11. IX Shakespeare.
12. X Marlowe, Jonson, Webster.
13. XI Molière & Racine.
14. XII Goethe's Faust.
15. XIII Ibsen, & the modern.
16. XIV Chekhov.
17. XV Strindberg & Pirandello.
18. XVI O'Neill.
19. XVII Brecht.
20. XVIII Beckett.
21. XIX Williams, Miller, Hansberry.
22. XX Pinter, Stoppard, Churchill.
23. XXI August Wilson.
24. XXII Where the form is now.
25. XXIII Twenty-six plays.
26. XXIV Directors as authors.
27. XXV Where to go next.
28. The end of the deck.

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