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  2. English drama - Wikipedia

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    Besides the Middle English drama, there are three surviving plays in Cornish known as the Ordinalia. These biblical plays differ widely in content. Most contain episodes such as the Fall of Lucifer , the Creation and Fall of Man , Cain and Abel , Noah and the Flood , Abraham and Isaac , the Nativity , the Raising of Lazarus , the Passion , and ...

  3. Story structure - Wikipedia

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    Story structure or narrative structure is the recognizable or comprehensible way in which a narrative 's different elements are unified, including in a particularly chosen order and often specifically referring to the ordering of the plot: the narrative series of events. In a play or work of theatre especially, this can be called dramatic ...

  4. Thunderstorm (play) - Wikipedia

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    Thunderstorm. (play) Thunderstorm ( Chinese: 雷雨; pinyin: Léiyǔ; Wade–Giles: Lei-yü) is a play written in 1933 by the Chinese dramatist Cao Yu. It is one of the most popular Chinese dramatic works of the period prior to the Japanese invasion of China in 1937.

  5. Drama teaching techniques - Wikipedia

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    Drama games. Drama games, activities and exercises are often used to introduce students to drama. These activities tend to be less intrusive and are highly participatory (e.g. Bang ). There are several books that have been written on using drama games. Games for Actors and Non-Actors by Augusto Boal includes writings on his life work as well as ...

  6. Verse drama and dramatic verse - Wikipedia

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    Literature portal. v. t. e. Verse drama is any drama written significantly in verse (that is: with line endings) to be performed by an actor before an audience. Although verse drama does not need to be primarily in verse to be considered verse drama, significant portions of the play should be in verse to qualify. [1]

  7. Prompt book - Wikipedia

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    Prompt book. The prompt book, also called transcript, the bible or sometimes simply the book, is the copy of a production script that contains the information necessary to create a theatrical production from the ground up. It is a compilation of all blocking, business, light, speech and sound cues, lists of properties, drawings of the set ...

  8. Shakuntala (play) - Wikipedia

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    Shakuntala was disapproved of as a text for school and college students in the British Raj in the 19th century, as popular Indian literature was deemed, in the words of Charles Trevelyan, to be "marked with the greatest immorality and impurity", and Indian students were thought by colonial administrators to be insufficiently morally and ...

  9. Academic drama - Wikipedia

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    Academic drama refers to a theatrical movement that emerged in the mid 16th century during the Renaissance. Dedicated to the study of classical dramas for the purpose of higher education, universities in England began to produce the plays of Sophocles , Euripides , and Seneca the Younger (among others) in the Greek and Roman languages, as well ...