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  2. Play (theatre) - Wikipedia

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    The term "play" can encompass either a general concept or specifically denote a non-musical play. In contrast to a "musical", which incorporates music, dance, and songs sung by characters, the term "straight play" can be used. For a brief play, the term "playlet" is occasionally employed. The term "script" pertains to the written text of a play.

  3. English drama - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, a fifteenth-century play of the life of Mary Magdalene, The Brome Abraham and Isaac and a sixteenth-century play of the Conversion of Saint Paul exist, all hailing from East Anglia. Besides the Middle English drama, there are three surviving plays in Cornish known as the Ordinalia. These biblical plays differ widely in content.

  4. Category:Tragedy plays - Wikipedia

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    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; BLKS; Blood Brothers (musical) Blood Wedding; The Bloody Banquet; Boadicea, Queen of Britain; Braganza (play) Brand (play) Bride of Fire; The Bride of ...

  5. Verse drama and dramatic verse - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia

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    Example: Les Misérables, The Fugitive; Disaster. a vanquished power; a victorious enemy or a messenger; The vanquished power falls from their place after being defeated by the victorious enemy or being informed of such a defeat by the messenger. Example: Agamemnon (play) Falling prey to cruelty/misfortune. an unfortunate; a master or a misfortune

  7. Category:One-act plays - Wikipedia

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    Pariah (play) Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread; Piranha Heights; The Pitchfork Disney; The Poltergeist (play) Post-Mortem (Coward play) The Pot Maker; Prairie du Chien (play) The Problem (play) Prodigals (play) A Provincial Lady; Purgatory (drama) The Purple Flower

  8. 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.

  9. Category:Plays based on novels - Wikipedia

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    Calpurnia (play) Catch-22 (play) Children of the Ghetto (1899 play) Chimneys (play) A Christmas Carol; or, Past, Present, and Future; Colonel Newcome (play) The Corsican Brothers (play) The Countess of Salisbury (play) Crime and Punishment (play) The Crucifer of Blood; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (play)