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  2. List of Shakespearean scenes - Wikipedia

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    Scene Location Appr. # lines Synopsis I 1 Roussillon. A room in the Count's palace. 214 I 2 Paris. The King's palace. 86 I 3 Roussillon. A room in the Count's palace. 249 II 1 Paris. The King's palace. 223 II 2 Roussillon. The Count's palace. 60 II 3 Paris. The King's palace. 293 II 4 Another room in the King's palace. 55 II 5 Another room in ...

  3. Shakespeare's plays - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare's plays are a canon of approximately 39 dramatic works written by the English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare. The exact number of plays as well as their classifications as tragedy, history, comedy, or otherwise is a matter of scholarly debate. Shakespeare's plays are widely regarded as among the greatest in the ...

  4. Shakespeare in performance - Wikipedia

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    The play ends with three marriages: Benedick's to Beatrice, Claudio's to Hero, and Isabella's to an Angelo whose attempt on Isabella's virtue was a ploy. Davenant wrote many of the bridging scenes and recast much of Shakespeare's verse as heroic couplets. A final feature of Restoration stagecraft impacted productions of Shakespeare.

  5. William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    The Plays of William Shakespeare, a painting containing scenes and characters from several plays of Shakespeare; by Sir John Gilbert, c. 1849 Shakespeare's works include the 36 plays printed in the First Folio of 1623, listed according to their folio classification as comedies , histories , and tragedies . [ 146 ]

  6. Medieval theatre - Wikipedia

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    The earliest secular drama is The Play of the Greenwood by Adam de la Halle in 1276. It contains satirical scenes and folk material such as faeries and other supernatural occurrences. Farces also rose dramatically in popularity after the 13th century.

  7. Category:Plays by Anton Chekhov - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Plays by Anton Chekhov" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. The Bear (play) C.

  8. List of American plays - Wikipedia

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    The Flying Machine: A One-Act Play for Three Men (1953), by Ray Bradbury; Fools (1981), by Neil Simon; Fortitude (1968), by Kurt Vonnegut; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (1982), by Terrence McNally; The Frog Prince (1982), by David Mamet; The Front Page (1928), by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur; Fugitive Kind (1937), by Tennessee Williams

  9. Nineteenth-century theatre - Wikipedia

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    Richard Wagner's Bayreuth Festival Theatre.. A wide range of movements existed in the theatrical culture of Europe and the United States in the 19th century. In the West, they include Romanticism, melodrama, the well-made plays of Scribe and Sardou, the farces of Feydeau, the problem plays of Naturalism and Realism, Wagner's operatic Gesamtkunstwerk, Gilbert and Sullivan's plays and operas ...