Generous to include our people in classic drama (5)
I believe the answer is:
faust
'classic drama' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't see how one could define the other.
'generous to include our people' is the wordplay.
'generous' becomes 'fat' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to include' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'our people' becomes 'us' (us refers to 'our' group or our people).
'fat' going around 'us' is 'FAUST'.
'in' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for faust that I've seen before include "Tragic figure" , "Goethe's damned soul" , "Goethe play" , "Goethe's two-part tragedy" , "Cautionary tale" .)