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Changes Throughout Society Drama has made many changes throughout its existence and has helped to shape many different societies in many different ways. Drama began with ancient drama, worked its way up to medieval drama; now has crawled its way up to modern and contemporary drama and beyond. Today, drama of all structures are enjoyed leisurely and also for education purposes. Along the way drama has taken many forms, and the ability to illustrate different issues, classes, joys, and tragedies. Drama has changed even from the Shakespearean age and now has classifications such as romanticism, realism, and naturalism. For example, look at the differences between play’s such as A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare and Hedda Galber by Henrik Ibsen. These two plays portray many differences in context in contrasting from then to now and also; at the same time, they show many similarities between the individual characters. From the Shakespearean age, with the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, it takes on the traditional ways of having the male gender be the dominating and manipulating figure in the story. Egeus, Hermia’s father, seems to possess many evils. Evils such as having control over whom his daugh