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Theater Genre list
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| Broadway Musical | Baker Street | |||
| Moby Dick | ||||
| Hairspray | ||||
| Everywoman | ||||
| My Fair Lady | ||||
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| Historical drama | Film genre | The Red Priest of Venice |
The historical drama is a film genre in which stories are based upon historical events and famous persons. Some historical dramas attempt to accurately portray a historical event or biography, to the degree that the available historical research...
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| Comedy |
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TV Genre | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
Comedy has a popular meaning (any discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy). This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are...
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| Media genre | Love's Labour's Lost | |||
| Comic Strip Genre | Noises Off | |||
| Anime/Manga Genre | Is He Dead? | |||
| Literary Genre | L'Île des esclaves | |||
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| Tragedy |
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Quotation Subject | 'Tis Pity She's a Whore |
Tragedy (, tragōidia, "goat-song") is a form of art based on human suffering that offers its audience pleasure. While most culture have developed forms that provoke this paradoxical response, tragedy refers to a specific tradition of drama that has...
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| Book Subject | Death of a Salesman | |||
| Media genre | The Crucible | |||
| TV Genre | The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus | |||
| The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois | ||||
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| Musical Comedy | Film genre | In Town | ||
| Musical genre | The French Maid | |||
| Gentleman Joe | ||||
| Absurdism |
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The Bald Soprano |
Absurdism is a philosophy stating that the efforts of humanity to find meaning in the universe ultimately fail (and, hence, are absurd) because no such meaning exists, at least in relation to humanity. The word "absurd" in this context does not mean...
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| Tragicomedy | Book Subject | Uncle Vanya |
Tragicomedy is fiction work that blend aspects of the genre of tragedy and comedy. In English literature, from Shakespeare's time to the nineteenth century, tragicomedy refers to a serious play with a happy ending.
There is no complete formal...
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| Surrealism |
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Art period/movement | Les Mamelles de Tirésias |
Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early-1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members.
Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur; however many...
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| Purim spiel | The Sale of Joseph |
A Purim Spiel, or Purimshpil, meaning a Purim play—shpil means 'game' or '(stage) play' in Yiddish. (See also spiel).
A Purim Spiel is usually a comic drama, as a traditional type of Jew play, or informal theatrical production, with participants,...
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| Fantasy |
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Book Subject | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
Fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting. Fantasy is generally distinguished from science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of technological and...
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| TV Genre | Endorian Dreams | |||
| Computer Game Genre | The Door She Chose | |||
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| Musical theatre |
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Website Category | Priscilla: Queen of the Desert |
Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining music, song, spoken dialogue and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical...
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| Musical genre | Insignificant Others | |||
| Building function | Bare, a Pop Opera | |||
| Profession | The Well of Romance | |||
| Field Of Study | Carousel | |||
| Musiche di scena | Maschere - Incidental music | |||
| Musical |
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Film genre | Alice in Wonderland |
The musical film is a film genre in which several song sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative. The songs are used to advance the plot or develop the film's characters. A subgenre of the musical film is the musical comedy, which...
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| TV Genre | Singin' in the Rain | |||
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| History |
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Field Of Study | Henry V |
History is the study of the past, particularly the written record of the human race, but more generally including scientific and archaeological discoveries about the past. Recently, there has been an increased interest in oral histories and...
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| Literary Genre | Henry IV, Part 1 | |||
| Media genre | Henry IV, Part 2 | |||
| TV Genre | King John | |||
| Book Subject | Henry VIII | |||
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