One-act play
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A one-act play is a play that has only one act, as distinct from plays that occur over several acts. One-act plays may consist of one or more scenes. In recent years, the 10-minute play known as "flash drama" has emerged as a popular sub-genre of the one-act play, especially in writing competitions. The origin of the one-act play may be traced to the very beginning of drama: in ancient Greece, Cyclops, a satyr play by Euripides, is an early example.[1]
One-act plays by major dramatists
- Samuel Beckett – Krapp's Last Tape (1958)
- Anton Chekhov – A Marriage Proposal (1890)
- Arthur Miller – A Memory of Two Mondays (1955)
- Israel Horovitz – Line (1974)
- Eugène Ionesco – The Bald Soprano (1950)
- August Strindberg – Pariah (1889), Motherly Love (1892), and The First Warning (1892)
- Thornton Wilder – The Long Christmas Dinner (1931)
See also
References
- ↑ Francis M. Dunn. Tragedy's End: Closure and Innovation in Euripidean Drama. Oxford University Press (1996).
Sources
- Murray, Stephen. Taking Our Amusements Seriously. LAP, 2010. ISBN 978-3-8383-7608-0.
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