drama

...However, the scope of meaning differs between languages, and while in all languages, "spectator seat" becomes "theater," it is only in French that this word can simultaneously refer to "theater," "the totality of stage performances," and "the totality of a writer's plays." In addition, the Greek word drama (meaning action), which is as important as theatron in terms of Greek etymology and also expresses the whole with a part, broadly refers to stage performances with a plot and characters in English (i.e., theater), but in French, drame refers to the content of the work or to a genre of dramatism from the 19th century Romantic period onwards, which originated from the citizen theater advocated by Diderot in the 18th century (although the adjective dramatique can be used more broadly).

*Some of the terminology that mentions "drama" is listed below.

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…しかし各国語の間で意味の広がりは異なって，〈見物席〉が〈劇場〉となるのはどの国語も同じであるが，この語が同時に〈劇場〉と〈舞台表現の総体〉と〈一作家の戯曲の総体〉を指しうるのはフランス語においてである。また，ギリシア語語源からすればテアトロンと並んで重要であり，同じく部分で全体を表すことになるギリシア語drama(ドラマ。行動の意)は，英語drama(ドラマ)では筋と登場人物をもつ舞台表現を広く指すが(つまり演劇である)，フランス語でdrame(ドラム)といえば，作品の内容を指すか，18世紀にディドロが主張した市民劇に発する19世紀ロマン派以降の劇作術上の一ジャンルを指す(ただし形容詞のdramatiqueはより広く用いうる)。…

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