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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 ...
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 ...
The origin of the one-act play may be traced to the very beginning of recorded Western drama: in ancient Greece, Cyclops, a satyr play by Euripides, is an early example. The satyr play was a farcical short work that came after a trilogy of multi-act serious drama plays.
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. 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.
A closet drama (or closet play) is a play created primarily for reading, rather than production. Closet dramas are traditionally defined in narrower terms as belonging to a genre of dramatic writing unconcerned with stage technique. Stageability is only one aspect of closet drama: historically, playwrights might choose the genre of 'closet ...
Realism (theatre) Scene from A Doll's House, a 1922 silent film starring Alla Nazimova and Alan Hale Sr. The author of the original play, Henrik Ibsen, was an influential proponent of realism in the theatre. Realism in the theatre was a general movement that began in 19th-century theatre, around the 1870s, and remained present through much of ...
Medieval theatre. Nineteenth–century engraving of a performance from the Chester mystery play cycle. Medieval theatre encompasses theatrical in the period between the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century and the beginning of the Renaissance in approximately the 15th century. The category of "medieval theatre" is vast, covering ...
Heroic drama is a type of play popular during the Restoration era in England, distinguished by both its verse structure and its subject matter. [1] [2] The subgenre of heroic drama evolved through several works of the middle to later 1660s; John Dryden 's The Indian Emperour ( 1665 ) and Roger Boyle's The Black Prince ( 1667 ) were key ...