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theater
theater building, structure, or space in which dramatic performances take place. In its broadest sense theater can be defined as including everything connected with dramatic art—the play itself, the stage with its scenery and lighting, makeup, costumes, acting, and actors. Ancient Greec... Read more

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Fabula
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre Fabula, generic Latin name for a play, under which many different types of drama were grouped. Among them were:1. The Atellana , short... Read more
Mime
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...popular, farcical drama which, unlike the fabula atellana and the silent acting of the...hood or ricinium —whence the name fabula riciniata for a mime—which could...that they had much in common with the fabulae atellanae which the new mime-plays seem... Read more
Palliata
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre Palliata, see FABULA 2 : PALLIATA . Read more
Crepidata
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre Crepidata, see FABULA 2 : PALLIATA . Read more
Praetexta
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre Praetexta, see FABULA 3 : PRAETEXTA . Read more
Togata
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre Togata, see FABULA 4 : TOGATA . Read more
Tabernaria
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre Tabernaria, see FABULA 4: TOGATA . Read more
Pomponius, Lucius
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre Pomponius, Lucius, see FABULA I : ATELLANA. Read more
Roman Drama
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...Tarentum, for instance, and the Oscan fabula atellana , which were not unlike the comedy...first to produce at a public festival a fabula palliata , or Greek play in translation...together with a very few examples of the fabula praetexta , on a historical Roman theme... Read more
Terence
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...Terentius Afer ] ( c. 190–159 BC), Roman dramatist, a freed slave, probably of African parentage. Six of his plays in the fabula palliata form are extant—the Andria ( The Girl from Andros , 166 BC), the Hecyra ( The Mother-in-Law , 165), the Heauton... Read more

Dictionary entries related to "fabula"

fable
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...characters, conveying a moral; a story, typically a supernatural one incorporating elements of myth and legend. Recorded from Middle English, the word comes via Old French from Latin fabula ‘story’, from fari ‘speak’. Read more

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Fabula and fictionality in narrative theory.
Magazine article from: Style; 12/22/2001; ; 700+ words ; The distinction between fabula and sujet is, according to various commonsensical...corresponds to Aristotle's muthos, but whether fabula is best equated with praxis, or logos...there is no clear distinction between fabula and, for example, story, despite the... Read more
'Que Yo le Hare de Suerte que os Espante, Si El Fingimiento A la Verdad Excede': Creative use of art in Lope de Vega's Los Locos de Valencia.(and Velazquez's Fabula de Aracne)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...and the late mythological painting the Fabula de Aracne, otherwise known as Las hilanderas...recent critics' interpretations of the Fabula de Aracne, and to reassess Lope's early...in their interpretation of Velazquez's Fabula de Aracne, there is some common ground... Read more
Pullus fabula.(The henhouse)
Magazine article from: Countryside & Small Stock Journal; 3/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; Last summer was the first time we had ordered chicks in years. Once, back on our old farmstead, we placed an order for 25 chicks at the hatchery, of which breed I cannot recall with any certainty. That was the first and, until spring of 2006, the last time we ever purchased chickens, some 16 years Read more
Contra la violencia.(El maestro de Petersburgo)(Reseña de libro)
Magazine article from: Proceso; 12/7/2003; ; 497 words ; ...de ninguna parte (1977) y La Edad de Hierro (1990), en las que cuestiona duramente el apartheid. También aquellas en las que fabula sobre la vida de los escritores, como lo hace en Foe --acerca del autor de Robinson Crusoe-- y en El maestro de Petersburgo... Read more
Disseminating heterotopia.
Magazine article from: African American Review; 9/22/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...This is why utopias permit fables and discourses: they run with the very grain of language and are part of the fundamental fabula: heterotopias desiccate speech, stop words in their tracks, contest the very possibility of grammar at its source: they dissolve... Read more
Molly Briggs at Zg.(CHICAGO)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 9/1/2007; ; 344 words ; ...city border. Next, she created a 2-by30-foot eight-panel work, Fabula North Avenue, by projecting photo images of single trees from...trees in snow, which he took on North Avenue near Lake Michigan. Fabula North Avenue #3 shows three dense, leafy trees at left and center... Read more
Creative Writing.(Creative Writing: A Guide And Glossary To Fiction Writing)(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Internet Bookwatch; 8/1/2007; 232 words ; ...more than 200 specialized terms and techniques associated with fiction writing (including 'intertextuality', 'anachrony', and 'fabula'); demonstrates how to achieve fictional effects; provides literary example of the described techniques; addresses the characteristics... Read more
(book review)
Magazine article from: Style; 9/22/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...to rethink that aspect of narrative communication which G[acute{e}]rard Genette called narration, as opposed to histoire (= fabula or story) and r[acute{e}]cit (= s juzet or discourse), and which Gerald Prince termed the narrating as opposed to the narrative... Read more
Varlam Shalamov's Kolyma Tales: A Formalist Analysis.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...focus; in order, these are narrative structure, point of view, fabula and sujet, characterization, and setting. However, at times...follow the subheadings 'Narrative Structure', 'Point of View', 'Fabula and Sujet', and 'Characterisation'. One can see why this is... Read more
(book reviews)
Magazine article from: Style; 9/22/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...the formal features of narrative, or that are related to it in some other way. Hence, Boris Tomashevsky distinguished between fabula ( the aggregate of mutually related events reported in the work ) and sjuzhet ( the orderly sequence in which [the events are... Read more