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Modern drama is a literary category that encompasses plays and dramatic works from the late 19th century onward that break from earlier melodramatic and romantic conventions to explore more realistic, psychological, and often socially critical themes. It emphasizes complex, morally ambiguous characters, interior conflict, and the effects of modernity—urbanization, class change, alienation, and shifting gender roles—while experimenting with form, structure, and stagecraft (from naturalism and realism to symbolism, expressionism, absurdism, and political theater). Readers can expect sharper dialogue, fractured narratives, ethical dilemmas rather than tidy resolutions, and techniques that foreground character consciousness and cultural critique; playwrights associated with the category include Ibsen, Chekhov, Shaw, Brecht, O’Neill, Beckett, Miller and later contemporaries who continue to update those modernist concerns.

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