Drama vs. Script — What's the Difference?

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., 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.

Handwriting.

A play for theatre, radio, or television

A style of writing with cursive characters.

An exciting, emotional, or unexpected event or circumstance

A particular system of writing

A prose or verse composition, especially one telling a serious story, that is intended for representation by actors impersonating the characters and performing the dialogue and action.

A style of type that imitates handwriting.

A serious narrative work or program for television, radio, or the cinema.

The matter set in this type.

Theatrical plays of a particular kind or period

The text of a play, broadcast, or movie.

The art or practice of writing or producing dramatic works.

A copy of a text used by a director or performer.

A situation or succession of events in real life having the dramatic progression or emotional effect characteristic of a play

(Law) The original of a legal instrument, as opposed to a copy.

The quality or condition of being dramatic

(Computers) A simple program in a language that the computer must convert to machine language each time the program is run.

A composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue

To prepare (a text) for filming or broadcasting.

Such a work for television, radio or the cinema (usually one that is not a comedy)

To arrange, direct, or control (an event or a person) as if supplying a script

Theatrical plays in general

(Computers) To write (code) for a program.

A situation in real life that has the characteristics of such a theatrical play

A writing; a written document.

(slang) Rumor, lying or exaggerated reaction to life or online events; melodrama; an angry dispute or scene; a situation made more complicated or worse than it should be; intrigue or spiteful interpersonal maneuvering.

Written characters; style of writing.

A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than ordinary interest, tending toward some striking result. It is commonly designed to be spoken and represented by actors on the stage.

(typography) Type made in imitation of handwriting.

A series of real events invested with a dramatic unity and interest.

An original instrument or document.

Dramatic composition and the literature pertaining to or illustrating it; dramatic literature.

(countable) The written document containing the dialogue and action for a drama; the text of a stage play, movie, or other performance. Especially, the final form used for the performance itself.

A dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage;

(computing) A file containing a list of user commands, allowing them to be invoked once to execute in sequence.

An episode that is turbulent or highly emotional

(psychology) A behavioral script; sequence of actions in a given situation.

The literary genre of works intended for the theater

(linguistics) A system of writing adapted to a particular language or set of languages.

The quality of being arresting or highly emotional

(informal) prescription for drugs or medicine

(transitive) To make or write a script.

(transitive) To devise, concoct, or contrive.

A writing; a written document.

Type made in imitation of handwriting.

An original instrument or document.

Written characters; style of writing.

A written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance

Something written by hand;

A particular orthography or writing system

Write a script for;