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Mordern Forms of drama
drama
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Undergraduate 2
03/09/2008
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Melodrama
 Definition
plays with streotyped villains and heroes representing extremes of good and evil.
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realistic drama
 Definition
these dramatists worked to present everyday life-crises, conflicts and emotional responses to which ordinary people could relate.
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Theater of the absurd
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the second half of the 20th century playwrites rejected the convections of realistic drama. Instead of a sequence of logically connected events, absurd drama offers actions that lead to no predictable direction.conversations or speeches change for no reason.Martin Esslin was the first to call it-
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