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the public performance of plays
- he has been interested in drama from the first time he ever saw a play
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a written work in which the story is told through speech and action that is intended to be acted out on stage
- wrote a police drama that really captured the speech of cops and criminals
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Language that lives on after the curtain comes down.
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“Drama.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drama. Accessed 21 Oct. 2020.
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The first known use of drama was in 1515
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