the English Renaissance, approximately 1500–1660, saw a flowering of the drama and all the arts. The two candidates for the earliest comedy in English Nicholas...
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The two masks associated with drama represent the traditional generic division between comedy and tragedy. In English (as was the analogous case in many...
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essential enabling factor in the success of English Renaissance drama. Once they were in operation, drama could become a fixed and permanent, rather than...
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soap opera, police crime drama, political drama, legal drama, historical drama, domestic drama, teen drama, and comedy-drama (dramedy). These terms tend...
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turned to closet drama when his plays could no longer be produced during this period; he was in exile from England during the English Civil War. Following...
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international scholarly projects and holdings devoted to pre-Puritan English drama and the works of Desiderius Erasmus. Victoria College was founded as...
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English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world. The English language has developed over more than 1...
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Restoration comedy (redirect from Restoration drama)
Puritan regime, reopening of the theatres in 1660 marked a renaissance of English drama. Sexually explicit language was encouraged by King Charles II (1660–1685)...
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Kitchen sink realism (redirect from Kitchen Sink Drama)
Kitchen sink realism (or kitchen sink drama) is a British cultural movement that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in theatre, art, novels,...
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The Records of Early English Drama (REED) is a performance history research project, based at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded...
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Drama y Luz (English: "Drama and Light") is the eighth studio album released by the Mexican Latin pop/Rock en Español band Maná. This album was released...
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Korean drama (Korean: 한국 드라마; RR: Hanguk deurama), also known as K-drama or Koreanovela, refers to Korean-language television shows made in South Korea...
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Emma Corrin (category Best Drama Actress Golden Globe (television) winners)
December 1995) is an English actor. They portrayed Diana, Princess of Wales in the fourth season of the Netflix historical drama The Crown (2020), for...
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Award for English-language poetry or drama was a Canadian literary award that annually recognized one Canadian writer for a work of poetry or drama published...
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Kelly Reilly (category Use British English from April 2016)
film work began in 2000 in the English comedy film Maybe Baby. She went on to have a supporting role in the romantic drama Pride & Prejudice (2005), a leading...
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A historical drama (also period drama, period piece or just period) is a dramatic work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and...
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Kakegurui (section English television drama)
and Netflix Japan on July 2, 2018. The drama was streamed on Netflix in Japanese with subtitles including English, Spanish, Chinese, and Thai in May 2018...
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History of theatre (redirect from History of drama)
renaissance of English drama. With the restoration of the monarch in 1660 came the restoration of and the reopening of the theatre. English comedies written...
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Mann (USA) (English) (Drama); from novel by John O'Hara Hattie (Susan Sarandon) in Pretty Baby (1978) by Louis Malle (USA) (English) (Drama) Ilya (Melina...
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Oxford World's Classics (section Oxford English Drama)
while retaining the base text established by James Kinsley. Oxford English Drama editions offer a selection of plays, selected from an author's œuvre...
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Docudrama (redirect from Docu-drama)
genres that relied on history or then-current events for material. English Renaissance drama, for example, developed subgenres specifically devoted to dramatizing...
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) Mariamne (1723), an English drama by Elijah Fenton Mariamne (1723), a French drama by Voltaire Mariamne (1725), a French drama by Augustin Nadal La Marianna...
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Stuart Restoration (redirect from Restoration (English history))
Loughborough University, 2016) online. Robert D. Hume, The Development of English Drama in the Late Seventeenth Century (1976) p. 205 Hume, 206–209. Judith...
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The Drama is an upcoming American romance film written and directed by Kristoffer Borgli and starring Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Mamoudou Athie and Alana...
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a Russian drama by Dmitri Alexandrov Herod and Mariamne (1938), an English drama by Clemence Dane Herod and Mariamne (1888), an English poem by Amelie...
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Christopher Marlowe (category Use British English from May 2012)
David, and Eric Rasmussen, eds. Doctor Faustus and Other Plays. Oxford English Drama. Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. viii–ix. ISBN 0-19-283445-2 White...
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Adama Barrow (redirect from No Drama Adama)
from Argos security guard to president of the Gambia". The Guardian. "'No drama Adama' Barrow seeks to end Gambia's erratic Jammeh era". Reuters. 2 December...
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1943 Governor General's Awards (redirect from 1943 Governor General's Award for English-language poetry or drama)
categories, which recognized English-language works only. Fiction: Thomas H. Raddall, The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek Poetry or drama: A. J. M. Smith, News of...
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of Drama is a drama school in the United Kingdom. It is based at Wootton, ten miles north of Oxford. The school is an independent, vocational drama school...
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Medieval theatre (redirect from Medieval drama)
themes were almost always religious. The most famous examples are the English cycle dramas, the York Mystery Plays, the Chester Mystery Plays, the Wakefield...
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