Drama
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Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television. Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the
Depiction of a scene from Shakespeare's play Richard III
Relief of a seated poet (Menander) with masks of New Comedy, 1st century BC – early 1st century AD, Princeton University Art Museum
An ivory statuette of a Roman actor of tragedy, 1st century AD
Stage drawing from a 15th-century vernacular morality play The Castle of Perseverance (as found in the Macro Manuscript)
Theatre
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Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors, to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, o
The best-preserved example of a classical Greek theatre, the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, has a circular orchêstra and probably gives the best idea of the original shape of the Athenian theatre, though it dates from the 4th century BC.
Greek Theatre of Taormina, Sicily, Magna Graecia, in present-day Italy
Roman theatre of Benevento
Roman mosaic depicting actors and an aulos player (House of the Tragic Poet, Pompeii)