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Parent topics
Humanities: Academic disciplines which deal with the human condition and what it is to be human. [e]- Performing arts: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
- Ancient Greek theatre: Add brief definition or description
- Comedy: The art of entertaining with humour. [e]
- Drama: A type of literature, especially plays, meant to be delivered in spoken performance on stage. [e]
- Farce: Add brief definition or description
- History (drama): Add brief definition or description
- Melodrama: Add brief definition or description
- Musical theatre: Add brief definition or description
Tragedy: An unfortunate event or chain of events which leads to suffering, loss of life, or serious repercussions, often expressed as drama or literature but the term can describe real-life events [e]
Major Playwrights
- Edward Albee: Add brief definition or description
- Horton Foote: Add brief definition or description
- William Inge: Add brief definition or description
- Arthur Miller: (1915-2005), American author of plays (All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, A View from the Bridge) and films (The Misfits) [e]
- Eugene O'Neill: (1888-1953) US playwright; wrote Long Day's Journey into Night and won Nobel Prize for literature. [e]
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Add brief definition or description
- William Shakespeare: (1564- 1616) English poet and playwright. [e]
- Oscar Wilde: (1854–1900) Irish poet, author, and playwright; wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray. [e]
- Thornton Wilder: (1897-1975) American author of plays (Our Town) and novels (The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Ides of March) [e]
- Tennessee Williams: Add brief definition or description
- August Wilson: Add brief definition or description
- Arnold J. Toynbee [r]: (1889-1975) English historian of world civilizations. [e]
- USS Quincy (CA-39) [r]: Heavy cruiser of the United States Navy's New Orleans-class, commissioned in 1936 and sunk during the Battle of Savo Island, part of the Guadalcanal campaign, in 1942 [e]
- Rodgers and Hammerstein [r]: Composer/songwriter and writer/lyricist/librettist. [e]
- Aero Zeppelin [r]: A 1988 song by Nirvana, left unreleased until the 1992 Insecticide compilation. [e]