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  2. 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 ...

  3. Category:British drama television series - Wikipedia

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    M. Maigret (1960 TV series) The Mallens. Man of the World (TV series) Merseybeat (TV series) A Mind to Kill. Mistresses (British TV series)

  4. Category:British drama films - Wikipedia

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    Alice (2002 film) All Coppers Are... All Creatures Great and Small (film) All Night Long (1962 film) All or Nothing (film) All Out for Kangaroo Valley. All the Little Animals. Allelujah (film) The Almond and the Seahorse.

  5. Restoration comedy - Wikipedia

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    Restoration comedy is English comedy written and performed in the Restoration period of 1660–1710. Comedy of manners is used as a synonym for this. [1] After public stage performances were banned for 18 years by the Puritan regime, reopening of the theatres in 1660 marked a renaissance of English drama. [2]

  6. List of genres - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of genres of literature and entertainment (film, television, music, and video games), excluding genres in the visual arts.. Genre is the term for any category of creative work, which includes literature and other forms of art or entertainment (e.g. music)—whether written or spoken, audio or visual—based on some set of stylistic criteria.

  7. 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.

  8. Drama (film and television) - Wikipedia

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    Drama (film and television) Gone with the Wind is a popular romance drama. In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. [1] The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-genre, macro-genre, or ...

  9. Docudrama - Wikipedia

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    Docudrama. Docudrama (or documentary drama) is a genre of television and film, which features dramatized re-enactments of actual events. [1] It is described as a hybrid of documentary and drama and "a fact-based representation of real event". [2]