Galway, Ireland

Drama & Theatre Studies

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Drama & Theatre Studies at NUI Galway

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: humanities
University website: www.nuigalway.ie/

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Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play performed in a theatre, or on radio or television. Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's Poetics (c. 335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory.
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