Claim: The Strain is a television series in the horror drama genres.

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance . The term comes from a Greek word meaning `` action '' -LRB- Classical Greek : δρᾶμα , drama -RRB- , which is derived from `` I do '' -LRB- Classical Greek : δράω , drao -RRB- .  The two masks associated with drama represent the traditional generic division between comedy and tragedy . They are symbols of the ancient Greek Muses , Thalia , and Melpomene . Thalia was the Muse of comedy -LRB- the laughing face -RRB- , while Melpomene was the Muse of tragedy -LRB- the weeping face -RRB- . Considered as a genre of poetry in general , the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle 's Poetics -LRB- c. 335 BCE -RRB- -- the earliest work of dramatic theory .   In English -LRB- as was the analogous case in many other European languages -RRB- , the word `` play '' or `` game '' -LRB- translating the Anglo-Saxon plèga or Latin ludus -RRB- was the standard term used to describe drama until William Shakespeare 's time -- just as its creator was a `` play-maker '' rather than a `` dramatist '' and the building was a `` play-house '' rather than a `` theatre . '' The use of `` drama '' in a more narrow sense to designate a specific type of play dates from the modern era . `` Drama '' in this sense refers to a play that is neither a comedy nor a tragedy -- for example , Zola 's Thérèse Raquin -LRB- 1873 -RRB- or Chekhov 's Ivanov -LRB- 1887 -RRB- . It is this narrower sense that the film and television industries , along with film studies , adopted to describe `` drama '' as a genre within their respective media . `` Radio drama '' has been used in both senses -- originally transmitted in a live performance , it has also been used to describe the more high-brow and serious end of the dramatic output of radio .   The enactment of drama in theatre , performed by actors on a stage before an audience , presupposes collaborative modes of production and a collective form of reception . The structure of dramatic texts , unlike other forms of literature , is directly influenced by this collaborative production and collective reception . The early modern tragedy Hamlet -LRB- 1601 -RRB- by Shakespeare and the classical Athenian tragedy Oedipus Rex -LRB- c. 429 BCE -RRB- by Sophocles are among the masterpieces of the art of drama . A modern example is Long Day 's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill -LRB- 1956 -RRB- .   Drama is often combined with music and dance : the drama in opera is generally sung throughout ; musicals generally include both spoken dialogue and songs ; and some forms of drama have incidental music or musical accompaniment underscoring the dialogue -LRB- melodrama and Japanese Nō , for example -RRB- . Closet drama describes a form that is intended to be read , rather than performed . In improvisation , the drama does not pre-exist the moment of performance ; performers devise a dramatic script spontaneously before an audience .