Arts: Literature: Drama

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Please submit sites relating to specific dramatists

Drama here refers to a play, or a literary composition intended to portray life or character or to tell a story usually involving conflicts and emotions exhibited through action and dialogue, designed for theatrical performance. The resulting literary traditions reflect the full spectrum of thought as history allows us to know it. A dramatist, or playwright, is one who writes plays. Dramatist can also refer to a person involved in the art of composing, writing, acting, or producing plays. In this category are found sites and categories relating to playwrights, their literary works, and the artistic environments and traditions in which they worked.

16th Century

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The reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603)saw the first popular theatres built in London, putting on plays by great writers such as Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson. These sites provide more information the English dramatists of period as well as their contemporaries in continental Europe.

17th Century

Please submit only sites related to the English dramatist and poet Francis Beaumont (1584-1616).

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18th Century

Please submit only websites related to the French dramatist Pierre Beaumarchais (1732-1799).

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19th Century

Please submit only websites related to French playwright Henry Becque (1837-1899).

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20th Century

Please submit only websites on American playwright Maxwell Anderson.

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Ancient Greek

Please submit only websites related to the ancient Greek dramatist, Crates.

Websites pertaining to various Ancient Greek Drama playwrights.

Contemporary

This category does not include websites about current productions or performances. Note that it''s a subcategory of "Literature." Submit only sites concerning playscripts or contemporary playwrights here.
Musicals belong in their own category as well.

Plays in the literary sense, including playscripts written fairly recently, and including websites about contemporary playwrights.

Elizabethan

Please submit sites dealing with general issues relating to the Elizabthan theatre, such as the buildings or themes of the plays.

The reign of Queen Elizabthan I saw the first popular theatres built in London, putting on plays by great writers such as Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson. These sites provide more information about this era.

Medieval

Please submit only websites related to specific works of the Medieval Theatre.

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