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Drama is a performance piece that is written to be presented on stage to an audience. A more common term for drama is a play. All plot actions and character development is shown through the actions and speech, or dialogue, of the actors. Drama can be written as prose or poetry and may be fiction or nonfiction, although usually dramas are fictional. Drama in its written form will include directions for the actors and descriptions of the setting.
by William Shakespeare from Romeo and Juliet
Act I, Scene 5 passage: In this passage from "Romeo ...
Act IV, Scene 1 passage: This passage from "Romeo an...
Act II, Scene 2 passage: This passage is from the ba...
William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" is the clas...
by William Shakespeare from Macbeth
Act V, Scene 5 passage: This passage is a speech fro...