We all know about the big two genres of written literature: prose and poetry, but do people know about drama?
Its literature but with lines of dialogue and other special things that make it easier to read.
Despite not being a fan of fiction literature, I always liked to read them at school because its easier to know what is going on.
In my country (Portugal) we have two authors that are famous thanks to the PNL (Portugal’s programme that defines what books should portuguese people read) that are Gil Vicente and Almeda Garrett.
Gil Vicente was alive during the 15th and 16th centuries and he is known for writing *Auto da Barca do Inferno* (A book about dead people going to hell and heaven) and *Farsa de Inês Pereira* which is about abusive relationships (in the 16th century!)
Almeida Garrett (who lived in the 19th century) is more modern and wrote another book named *Frei Luís de Sousa* which is about a woman who thinks her husband died so she marries another man, despite being more modern is a more boring story but with some interesting parts and a lot of plotwists and allegories (which made literature tests impossible)
The only non-portuguese drama writers I know are Shakespeare and a less known american book named *The crucible* (which is about the Salem witch trials).
What do you think about this kind of literature, is it better or worse?
by CRNXD38
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Fernando Pessoa is the shit.
Also Victor Hugo
Drama is taught in school where I grew up in the US. In high school, I studied Shakespeare and American playwrights including Arthur Miller, Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Lorraine Hansberry. In college, I studied Shakespeare, Chekhov, Tennessee Williams, Eugene O’Neill, Edward Albee, and Henrik Ibsen, and probably a dozen other playwrights.
The US has a very strong theater culture. Many people may not read it, but enjoy seeing plays.
For what it’s worth when I was in high school in the US we mainly just looked at Shakespeare and I think that might be more common. I always, like you, loved it when they assigned plays!