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INTRODUCTION

Drama and Dramatic Arts. Drama is a type of literature usually written to be performed.
People often make a distinction between drama, which concerns the written text, or script, for
the performance, and theater, which concerns the performance of this script. Many of the most
honored and influential works of literature around the world have been dramas. They begin with
the classical Greek tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides and continue with the plays
of such major dramatists as William Shakespeare in England, Molire in France, Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe in Germany, Henrik Ibsen in Norway, and August Strindberg in Sweden.

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