Modern Drama

Modern Drama Modern drama began by turning toward realism and away from the fantasy of nineteenth-century melodrama and farce. Realism gave rise to various innovations that served to express the dramatist’s vision of what reality is. These attempts to be “ more real than real” can be called expressionism. Realism and expressionism are the two dominant modes of drama in the twentieth century. One focuses on the external details of everyday life, while the other …

…even because of, their efforts to escape it. Comedy, on the other hand, is more interested in the group. It focuses on the welfare of society and of the human race itself. The antagonists of comedy are filled with the vices and follies of human nature, and the plot of comedy involves their reformation, so that they become fit companies for others. Tragedy usually ends with death and comedy ends with an affirmation of life.