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Dramatic Genres

The classical modes of stage drama, defined by outcome and tone rather than subject: comedy's resolution toward reconciliation, tragedy's descent toward catastrophe, tragicomedy's deliberate mixture of the two, and drama as the general stage genre encompassing both. Belongs here: a genre whose defining convention is performance for the stage and one of these classical outcome patterns. Does not belong here: a prose narrative genre that merely borrows dramatic structure, such as the picaresque novel.

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Era of Emergence
500 BCE 1
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Dramatic Genres

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Commedia dell'arte

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Elegiac Comedy

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Entremes

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Extravaganza

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Fagogo

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Farce

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Fin de Fiesta

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High Comedy

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Historical Drama

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History Play

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Jatra

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Kabuki

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Karagoz and Hacivat

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Kathakali

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Khon

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Kitchen Sink Drama

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Koothu

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Krishnanattam

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Kyogen

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Likay

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Loa

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Low Comedy

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Masque

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Melodrama

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Monologue

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Morality Play

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Mystery Play

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Nautanki

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Noh

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One-Act Play

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Ottan Thullal

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Palace Fiction

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Pansori

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Passion Play

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Peking Opera

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Problem Play

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Purim Spiel

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Ramlila

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Randai

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Revenge Tragedy

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Saang

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Sanskrit Drama

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Street Theatre

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Tamasha

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Ta'zieh

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Tragedy

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Tragicomedy

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Verse Drama and Dramatic Verse

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Victorian Burlesque

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Wayang

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Well-Made Play

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Xiangsheng

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Yakshagana

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Zaju

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Sources
1. Tragedy (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationTragedy, lead section, ancient Greek origin sentence
Quote, Tragedy, lead section, ancient Greek origin sentence
Originating in the theatre of ancient Greece 2500 years ago, where only a fraction of the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides survive, as well as many fragments from other poets, and the later Roman tragedies of Seneca.
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