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Tragic plays encompass a wide range of emotions and emphasize intense conflicts. Tragedy was the other original genre of Ancient Greek drama alongside comedy. Examples of tragedies include William Shakespeare's Hamlet, and John Webster's play The Duchess of Malfi. [2]
Music and theatre have had a close relationship since ancient times—Athenian tragedy, for example, was a form of dance-drama that employed a chorus whose parts were sung (to the accompaniment of an aulos—an instrument comparable to the modern oboe), as were some of the actors' responses and their 'solo songs' . [73]
The Battle of Hastings (play) Beauty in Distress; Bebdo (play) Belisarius (play) Ben Nazir, the Saracen; Bérénice; Beyond the Horizon (play) The Black Prince (play) Blackbird (play) Blasted; Blood Brothers (musical) Blood Wedding; The Bloody Banquet; Boadicea, Queen of Britain; Braganza (play) Brand (play) Bride of Fire; The Bride of Messina ...
The author of the original play, Henrik Ibsen, was an influential proponent of realism in the theatre. Realism was a general movement that began in 19th-century theatre, around the 1870s, and remained present through much of the 20th century.
Expressionism in theatre and drama has also experienced success in China and Spain. Notably, The Wilderness (play) by Cao Yu and Yama Zhao by Hong Shen were frequently produced in the 1920s and 1930s in China. Expressionism in Chinese theatre has recently experienced a resurgence in popularity since the 1980s. [7]
Chamber theatre; Cine-variety; City comedy; Comedia (play) Comédie en vaudevilles; Comédie-ballet; Comedy (drama) Comedy thriller; Community theatre; Concert saloon; Contextual theatre; Cuban musical theatre
The Oxford English Dictionary defines the "well-made play" as one "written in a formulaic manner which aims at neatness of plot and foregrounding of dramatic incident rather than naturalism, depth of characterization, intellectual substance, etc." [2] The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance (2004) elaborates on the definition: "A dramatic structure [designed] to provide a constantly ...
Dramatic verse occurs in a dramatic work, such as a play, composed in poetic form.The tradition of dramatic verse extends at least as far back as ancient Greece.. The English Renaissance saw the height of dramatic verse in the English-speaking world, with playwrights including Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare developing new techniques, both for dramatic structure and ...