The modern drama is characterized by its unique subject matter like the romanticism of the poor, the strict depiction of real life and the use of symbols, imagery and metaphors.

The drama of the Modernist Movement in England was much less innovative in technique than it was its poetry and novel. The drama which had suffered a steep decline during the Victorian Age was revived with great force at the beginning of the 20th century and the course of six decades has witnessed many trends and currents in the 20th-century drama. And like much of the literature of this period, which expressed reactions to rapid social change and cataclysmic events like World War I, it often dealt with the sense of alienation and disconnectedness that average people felt in this period. Unlike the earlier drama of Shakespeare and Sophocles, modern drama tended to focus not on kings and heroes, but instead on ordinary people dealing with everyday problems. Though these writers were very different, their work shared characteristics that were representative of a new form of drama known as modern drama. After a period of being dormant for much of the nineteenth century, the drama made a comeback in the last decades of the century and the early decades of the twentieth century, thanks to writers like Henrik Ibsen, George Bernard Shaw, and Eugene O'Neill.

However, it is a form that tends to go in and out of fashion depending on the availability of theatres and audiences.

Drama, literature that is written to be performed on the stage, is a form that goes back to the ancient Greeks and includes such writers as Shakespeare, Sophocles, and Christopher Marlowe.

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