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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...
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...
Mime
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...a spoken form of popular, farcical drama which, unlike the fabula atellana and the silent acting of the pantomimus , was played...player was a hood or ricinium —whence the name fabula riciniata for a mime—which could be drawn over the...
Phlyax
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...ancient Greek mime play, or farce , which bridged the gap between Athenian and Roman comedy. It was probably the model for the fabula atellana . Much of it was improvised, and consisted of burlesques of earlier plays interspersed with scenes of daily life played...
Praetexta
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre Praetexta, see FABULA 3 : PRAETEXTA .
Costume
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...except for the popular pantomimes , which were played almost in the nude, and the patchwork rags of the Atellan farce (see FABULA I: ATELLANA ), had become very elaborate and colourful. When the theatre, which had disappeared with the collapse of the...
Farce
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...submerged stream of folk-drama, of which few written records remain. It stands at the beginning of classical drama (see FABULA 1: ATELLANA ) as well as of modern European drama, and was especially popular in France in the later Middle Ages. Among the...
Pomponius, Lucius
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre Pomponius, Lucius, see FABULA I : ATELLANA.
Togata
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre Togata, see FABULA 4 : TOGATA .
theater
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...burlesque probably flourished before Aristophanes; it certainly did by the 3d cent. BC in the Greek phylakes and the Roman fabula Atellana. Medieval Theaters In the 9th cent. drama returned to the Western world in the form of mystery and miracle plays...

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fable
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...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’.

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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...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...
FABULA: A BILINGUAL MULTIMEDIA AUTHORING ENVIRONMENT FOR CHILDREN EXPLORING MINORITY LANGUAGES.(computer software helps children learn minority languages in Europe)
Magazine article from: Language, Learning & Technology; 5/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ABSTRACT Fabula, an interdisciplinary project funded...assumptions led to a general definition of the Fabula software: an easy-to-use software...shall present a brief description of the Fabula software and discuss the ways in which...
Old Concepts and New Poetics: `Historia', `Argumentum', and Fabula' in Twelfth- and Early Thirteenth-Century Latin Poetics of Fiction.(Review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...Historia', `Argumentum', and Fabula' in Twelfth- and Early Thirteenth...classical historia--argumentum--fabula triad, especially its subtle transformation...contention, that the medieval terms historia, fabula, and argumentum often conceal a more...
Franco Musarra, Bart Van den Bossche, Koenraad Du Pont, Natalie Dupre, Rosario Gennaro, and Serge Vanvolsem, eds. Eco in fabula: Umberto Eco in the Humanities.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Annali d'Italianistica; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Gennaro, and Serge Vanvolsem, eds. Eco in fabula: Umberto Eco in the Humanities. Firenze...essays organized in five sections, Eco in fabula provides contributions that elucidate...production. The second section of Eco in fabula, "The Search for the Perfect Language...
'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...their interpretation of Velazquez's Fabula de Aracne, there is some common ground...
Historia and Fabula: Myths and Legends in Historical Thought from Antiquity to the Modern Age.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 12/1/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...perhaps eccentric erudition dedicated to an interesting puzzle. As the title posits, we moderns distinguish historia from fabula. History, if accurate, is in some sense true, while fable can never aspire to accuracy, for, by definition, it can never...
Juri Jakob, Villamedianas Fabula de Faeton.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/2007; 468 words ; Juri Jakob, Villamedianas Fabula de Faeton, Studia Romanica 131 (Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag, 2006). 322 pp. ISBN 3-8253-5067-3. $72.00. Villamedian...
Homes: Design for living: 174 Fabula vase
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 11/21/2004; ; 491 words ; ...Sundberg (above, born 1964) on the other hand, and those little sensors will zap up and down like crazy. His one-off Fabula vases, made by Orrefors, are great hunks of seemingly molten glass, containing found pictures - in this case of pandas and...
Libros. (Colleción Fabula, guiones de películas, junio 1997)(TT: Books) (TA: Fabula Collection, movie scripts, June 1997)
Magazine article from: Tribuna de Actualidad; 6/16/1997; 397 words ; Colecciones Planeta. Destacamos el acierto de los nuevos ttulos de la Coleccin Fbula: guiones de tres recientes pelculas, Tesis, de A. Amenbar, Familia, de F. Len, y Hola, ests sola?, de I. Bollan. En otras colecciones: Fhrer, de Allan Prior (Col. Bestseller Mundial); Hazaas mdicas, de Toms Pins
Fabula Villoro un regreso.(Cultura)
Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México); 3/1/2005; 700+ words ; Byline: Sergio R. Blanco Plantea en 'El testigo' dudas ticas y morales sobre la validez de una afirmacin Como un Ulises que retorna a su Itaca, Julio Valdivieso, el protagonista de El testigo -la ms reciente novela de Juan Villoro- regresa a un Mxico del que ha estado ausente durante 24 aos, para