As a system of communication, there are four types of drama in the Western perspective. They are: Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

In the Western perspective drama as a system of communication has four types, and these are tragedy (1), comedy (2), serious drama (3) and melodrama (4).

Tragedy (1) turns on a downfall and evokes pity and fear, one of the recognised four forms.

Comedy (2) works through humour towards a happy resolution, another of the four.

Serious drama (3) treats weighty human situations without the fixed downfall of tragedy, and melodrama (4) heightens emotion and clear moral contrast.

Character drama (5) is left out, as it is not counted among these four Western types.

Together the four span the emotional range from the tragic to the sentimental.