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  2. Playwright - Wikipedia

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    A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays, which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading. Ben Jonson coined the term "playwright" and is the first person in English literature to refer to playwrights as separate from poets.

  3. Dramatis personae - Wikipedia

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    Dramatis personae for Leo, the Royal Cadet by Oscar Ferdinand Telgmann. Dramatis personae (Latin: 'persons of the drama') are the main characters in a dramatic work written in a list.

  4. Presentational and representational acting - Wikipedia

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    Conventionalized presentational devices include the apologetic prologue and epilogue, the induction (much used by Ben Jonson and by Shakespeare in The Taming of the Shrew), the play-within-the-play, the aside directed to the audience, and other modes of direct address.

  5. Drama - Wikipedia

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    Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television. [1] Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's Poetics (c. 335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory.

  6. Category:Dramatists and playwrights - Wikipedia

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    Depending on culture, the differences between the meaning of "Dramatist" and the meaning of "Playwright" are perceived otherwise. In light of this, please do not use the "Playwrights" and "Dramatists" subcategories of this category anymore, but move articles from either "Dramatists" or "Playwrights" to this category instead.

  7. Dramatism - Wikipedia

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    Kenneth Burke was an established literary critic who has contributed immensely to rhetoric theory. [1] Originally influenced by Shakespeare and Aristotle's rhetoric, he developed his theory of Dramatism, separating himself from the two by adding the importance of motive.

  8. Dramatists Guild of America - Wikipedia

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    The Dramatists Guild of America is a professional organization for playwrights, composers, and lyricists working in the U.S. theatre market. [1] It was born in 1921 out of the Authors Guild, known then as Authors League of America, formed in 1912.

  9. English drama - Wikipedia

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    Webster has received a reputation for being the Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatist with the most unsparingly dark vision of human nature. Webster's tragedies present a horrific vision of mankind; in his poem "Whispers of Immortality," T. S. Eliot memorably says that Webster always "saw the skull beneath the skin". While Webster's drama was ...