What is drama? 3/10/14

Drama is a genre in literature. the writing is set up in a play formation and is intended to be preformed on the stage. drama is unlike other writing in the fact that you can use lighting and backgrounds and stuff like that to get whatever point across you are trying to make or make things more interesting. It is not only a genre but also a theme or a style of writing. the style involves highly emotional or tragic situations. plays and movies use things like lighting and music to make things more or less dramatic.