The development of drama literature and activities in the area of Bosnia and Herzegovina did not proceed in continuity, according to chronological and historical determinants of literary epochs. From the first dramatic texts to the beginning of the Second World War, the rules within the development lines of this genre were established at the level of individual assessments and evaluations of a text in a critical review of the press. Several medieval records testify about the work of visiting traveling families in the then Bosnia, who came from the regional area. The only way of dramatic work is presented through a shadow theater, which, as a specific type of drama, was transferred to the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina from the East, mainly among the Bosniak population. Dramatic activities within the framework of Croatian and Serbian literary tradition in Bosnia and Herzegovina are determined by the national guide-lines of literary creators of neighboring countries, who had their own sequence in the development of this type of artistic representation. The Renaissance period of the overall Bosnian-Herzegovinian cultural activity begins at the end of the XIX century, with the arrival of the Austro- Hungarian monarchy to these areas. Socio-political changes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, conditioned by the arrival of new authorities and administrations, have sparked significant changes in the intellectual maturation of a new generation of artists. In some periods, between the 19th and the 20th centuries, they continued to publish their texts without the continuous development of the literary-artistic process, followed by writers who were current in the intellectual circles of Europe at the time. During this period, there is a significant expansion in the literary-creative opus of dramatic writers from the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina. They published their texts most often in literary journals or in their own editions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]