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  2. Prop - Wikipedia

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    The hero prop may have legible writing, lights, moving parts, or other attributes or functions missing from a standard prop. The name refers to their typical use by main characters in a production. A hero prop phaser from the Star Trek franchise, for example, might include a depressible trigger and a light-up muzzle and display panel (all of ...

  3. Act (drama) - Wikipedia

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    An act is a major division of a theatre work, including a play, film, opera, ballet, or musical theatre, consisting of one or more scenes. [1] [2] The term can either refer to a conscious division placed within a work by a playwright (usually itself made up of multiple scenes) [3] or a unit of analysis for dividing a dramatic work into sequences.

  4. Poetics (Aristotle) - Wikipedia

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    The Chorus should be written as one of the actors. As such, It should be an integral part of the whole: taking a share in the action and contributing to the unity of the plot. It is a factor in the pleasure of the drama. spectacle ; Refers to the visual apparatus of the play, including set, costumes, and props (anything you can see).

  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. Dramatic theory - Wikipedia

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    Drama is defined as a form of art in which a written play is used as basis for a performance. [1]: 63 Dramatic theory is studied as part of theatre studies. [2] Drama creates a sensory impression in its viewers during the performance. This is the main difference from both poetry and epics, which evoke imagination in the reader.

  7. Decorum - Wikipedia

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    In classical rhetoric and poetic theory, decorum designates the appropriateness of style to subject. Both Aristotle (in, for example, his Poetics) and Horace (in his Ars Poetica) discussed the importance of appropriate style in epic, tragedy, comedy, etc. Horace says, for example: "A comic subject is not susceptible of treatment in a tragic style, and similarly the banquet of Thyestes cannot ...

  8. Theatre of India - Wikipedia

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    Its drama is regarded as the highest achievement of Sanskrit literature. [23] It used stock characters, such as the hero (nayaka), heroine (nayika), or clown (vidusaka). Actors may have specialised in a particular type. Kālidāsa is arguably considered to be India's greatest Sanskrit dramatist, writing in the ca. 4th century CE-ca. 5th century CE.

  9. Play (theatre) - Wikipedia

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    A play is a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than mere reading.The creator of a play is known as a playwright.