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What is the difference between drama and tragedy?

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Drama- 
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 serious narrative work or program for television, radio, or the cinema. 
Theatrical plays of a particular kind or period: Elizabethan drama. 
The art or practice of writing or producing dramatic works. 
A situation or succession of events in real life having the dramatic progression or emotional effect characteristic of a play: the drama of the prisoner's escape and recapture. 
The quality or condition of being dramatic: a summit meeting full of drama. 
[Late Latin drāma, drāmat-, from Greek, from drān, to do, perform.] 


Full Definition of TRAGEDY

1
a :  a medieval narrative poem or tale typically describing the downfall of a great man
b :  a serious drama typically describing a conflict between the protagonist and a superior force (as destiny) and having a sorrowful or disastrous conclusion that elicits pity or terror
c :  the literary genre of tragic dramas
2
a :  a disastrous event :  calamity
b :  misfortune