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Broadway Musical     Baker Street  
Moby Dick
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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 Some Like it Hot often voted among the best comedy films of all time 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...
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 Terracotta mask of Dionysus. Greek, Myrina, second century BCE Quotation Subject 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
In a figurative sense a tragedy (from Classical Greek , "song for the goat", see below) is any event with a sad and unfortunate outcome, but the term also applies specifically in Western culture to a form of drama defined by Aristotle characterized...
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 Kierkegaard   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...
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 Indefinite Divisibility 1942 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...
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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,...
Fantasy Dobrynya Nikitch rescues Zabava Putyatichna from the dragon Gorynych 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...
TV Genre Endorian Dreams
Computer Game Genre The Door She Chose
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Musical theatre The Fantasticks original Off Broadway CD cover 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...
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 Marilyn Monroe dans la bande-annonce de Les hommes préfèrent les blondes, 1953 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...
TV Genre Singin' in the Rain
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