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 There are several types of dramas some of the most common forms are given below.

1. Comedy: Plays or dramas that are meant to create laughter among the readers or the audiences.
2. Comedy of Manners: Plays or dramas that are meant to make fun of the manners and ways of a social group to make fun of them for correction.
3. Commedia Dell’artea: Italian plays that are meant to create characters to place them in improvised situations. It was also called a comedy of profession. Most of the characters presented in such plays were masters, lovers, and servants.
4. Costume Drama: These plays or dramas are meant to present dresses of the time.
5. Farce: These plays or dramas present buffoons, horseplay for crude characterization.
6. Grand Guignol: These plays or dramas are meant to show brutality, horror, and violence during the 19th century.
7. Jacobean Drama: These plays and dramas were written during the period of James I.
8. Kabuki: These plays and dramas are of Japanese style comprising dance, stylized performance, and glamorous costumes.
9. Kathakali: These short plays with the music of Indian origin are known for colorful costumes and face masks.
10. Melodrama: These dramas and plays are known for exaggeration of characters, events, and situations for sensationalism.
11. Morality Plays: These dramas and plays were meant to highlight moral qualities during the 15th and 16th centuries of Europe.
12. Mastery Play: These dramas were written during the Middle Ages to depict the life of Christ.
13. Shadow Play: These dramas and plays used to present shadows instead of characters on the stage.
14. Situation Comedy or Sitcom: These plays or dramas present various characters in their daily activities.
15. Soap Operate: These plays or dramas present a domestic thematic strand full of sentimentalism.
16. Sketch: These short dramas and plays are meant to create comic situations through short sketches.
17. Street Theater: These dramas and plays are meant to entertain the public in the streets through readymade scenes and themes.
18. Absurd Play: These plays and dramas are meant to present the irrationality of life through changing dramatic structures and conventions.
19. Theatre of Cruelty: These dramas and plays are meant to change present sufferings and pains through characters, themes, and structures.
20. Tragedy: This is the oldest form of drama that means to present tragic emotions on the stage.
21. Tragicomedy: This type of drama presents tragedy and comedy together to make the people feel relieved after watching tragic events.
22. Romantic Comedy: A form of comedy, these dramas, and plays are meant to present light-hearted moments of life.