DRAMA – 1) a literary genre, otherwise called dramaturgy. Like the epic, drama reproduces the objective world, that is, people, things, natural phenomena, objects, etc. As in the epic, the events and actions of people forming a dramatic plot become the subject of drama. The peculiarity of drama as a literary kind consists in the special organization of artistic speech. Unlike the epic, there is no narrative in the drama, and the direct speech of the characters, their dialogues and monologues are of paramount importance. From the author's speech in the drama, only remarks remain