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2. 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 ...

3. List of the longest-running Broadway shows - Wikipedia

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   List of the longest-running Broadway shows. The Phantom of the Opera ran at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway from 1988 to 2023. This is a list of Broadway shows with 1,000 or more performances, sorted by number of performances. Eleven shows currently running on Broadway have at least 1,000 performances: the 1996 revival of Chicago, The Lion ...

4. Category:British plays - Wikipedia

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   The Capricious Lovers. The Captives (Delap play) The Carmelite. The Castle (play) The Castle of Montval. Castro's Beard. Cat and Mouse (Sheep) The Cat in the Hat (play) Cato Street.

5. Julius Caesar (play) - Wikipedia

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   Julius Caesar. (play) The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (First Folio title: The Tragedie of Ivlivs Cæsar), often abbreviated as Julius Caesar, is a history play and tragedy by William Shakespeare first performed in 1599. In the play, Brutus joins a conspiracy led by Cassius to assassinate Julius Caesar, to prevent him from becoming a tyrant.

6. List of plays adapted into feature films - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of plays other than those written by William Shakespeare (covered by the above section) that have been adapted into feature films.The title of the play is followed by its first public performance, its playwright, the title of the film adapted from the play, the year of the film and the film's director.

7. English drama - Wikipedia

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   The period known as the English Renaissance, approximately 1500–1660, saw a flowering of the drama and all the arts. The two candidates for the earliest comedy in English Nicholas Udall 's Ralph Roister Doister (c. 1552) and the anonymous Gammer Gurton's Needle (c. 1566), belong to the 16th century. During the reign of Elizabeth I (1558 ...

8. Play (theatre) - Wikipedia

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   t. e. 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. Plays are staged at various levels, ranging from London's West End and New York City's Broadway – the highest echelons of commercial theatre ...

9. Realism (theatre) - Wikipedia

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   Realism in the theatre was a general movement that began in 19th-century theatre, around the 1870s, and remained present through much of the 20th century. It developed a set of dramatic and theatrical conventions with the aim of bringing a greater fidelity of real life to texts and performances. These conventions occur in the text, (set ...