a play designed to be performed in a theatre.
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when the audience knows something that a character in a play does not know, and the character...
a poem in which a single person speaks and outlines his/her thoughts, actions or motivations, e....
the form, organisation or make-up of a play.
a style of writing and speaking that is dramatises events, e.g. Horses drowned, houses washed...