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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. The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia

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    The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations. The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations is a descriptive list which was first proposed by Georges Polti in 1895 to categorize every dramatic situation that might occur in a story or performance. [1] Polti analyzed classical Greek texts, plus classical and contemporaneous French works.

  4. List of police television dramas - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of police television programs. (CBDC noted, cancellations) (CBDC noted, cancellations) Dramas involving police procedural work, and private detectives, secret agents, and the justice system have been a mainstay of broadcast television since the early days of broadcasting .

  5. 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 ...

  6. Doctor Odyssey: 5 Things to Know About the ABC Medical Drama

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    “The word that [Ryan] first used with me is ‘sparkle,’ that everything should have a sparkle in your eye,” Jackson told TVLine in May. “The scripts are written with a lot of joy, and ...

  7. Greek tragedy - Wikipedia

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    The tragedy usually begins with a prologue, (from pro and logos, "preliminary speech") in which one or more characters introduce the drama and explain the background of the ensuing story. The prologue is followed by the parodos (entry of the characters/group) (πάροδος), after which the story unfolds through three or more episodes ...

  8. List of narrative techniques - Wikipedia

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    List of narrative techniques. A narrative technique (also, in fiction, a fictional device) is any of several specific methods the creator of a narrative uses [1] —in other words, a strategy applied in the delivering of a narrative to relay information to the audience and to make the narrative more complete, complex, or engaging.

  9. Category:Plays by Agatha Christie - Wikipedia

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    Akhnaton (play) Alibi (play) And Then There Were None (play) Appointment with Death (play)