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Dramas have been written since classical Greek on the purpose that they are to be staged. These dramas have the reality showing our lives in real world, furnish entertainment, are thereby so popular that 'poet' has enjoyed drama genre throughout the history of literature. But modern 'poet' is interested in new genre rather than in drama so that the audience at a theatre is declining in popularity. Peter Brook, a famous English dramatist, is one of the dramatists who has the insight to see through the aspect of modern drama. He has groped his way towards the norm and the perpetuity of drama, set up a new horizon in drama. Peter Brook introduced many experimental techniques to the traditional dramas, changed the structure of the dramas to audience-oriented dramas from stage-oriented ones: from the relationship of drama-actor-audience to of actor-audience-director. He insists that a play be pursued to an endless changes to make it modernized. This tendency made it possible that the director in a play is considered to be more important than the dramatist. He is a professional performing artist who considers the meaning on the stage significant, not the text. A dramatist writes a play, but the one who lets the audience grip the meaning of a play is the director. His understanding about drama undermines the traditional structure of drama, preparing a cornerstone to a new form of drama, and bringing forth a new genre called performing art in which a dramatist has his own status.