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  2. Skellig - Wikipedia

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    Skellig is a children's novel by the British author David Almond, published by Hodder in 1998. It was the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year and it won the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association , recognising the year's outstanding children's book by a British author. [ 3 ]

  3. Dramatic convention - Wikipedia

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    Dramatic conventions are the specific actions and techniques the actor, writer or director has employed to create a desired dramatic effect or style.. A dramatic convention is a set of rules which both the audience and actors are familiar with and which act as a useful way of quickly signifying the nature of the action or of a character.

  4. List of story structures - Wikipedia

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    A story structure, narrative structure, or dramatic structure (also known as a dramaturgical structure) is the structure of a dramatic work such as a book, play, or film. There are different kinds of narrative structures worldwide, which have been hypothesized by critics, writers, and scholars over time.

  5. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1887 play) - Wikipedia

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    The story was adapted from a novella by Robert Louis Stevenson.. In the first act, a group of friends (including Sir Danvers Carew's daughter Agnes, attorney Gabriel Utterson, and Dr. and Mrs. Lanyon) has met up at Sir Danvers' home. Dr. Lanyon brings word that Agnes' fiancé, Dr. Henry Jekyll, will be late to the gathering.

  6. Island Nights' Entertainments - Wikipedia

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    Illustration to Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Bottle Imp" by William Hatherell (1855–1928) Island Nights' Entertainments (also known as South Sea Tales) is a collection of short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1893. It would prove to contain some of his final completed work before his death in 1894.

  7. Floor fights, boos and a too-long kiss. How the dramatic and ...

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    How the dramatic and the bizarre define convention history. WILL WEISSERT. July 15, 2024 at 8:44 AM ... After President Lyndon B. Johnson opted not to seek reelection and Robert F. Kennedy was ...

  8. List of stock characters - Wikipedia

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    Stock characters from Commedia dell'Arte — which gave each character a standard costume, so easily identifiable — continued across many types of theater, dramatic storytelling, and fiction. A stock character is a dramatic or literary character representing a generic type in a conventional, simplified manner and recurring in many fictional ...

  9. Floor fights, boos and a too-long kiss. How the dramatic and ...

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    How the dramatic and the bizarre define convention history By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In 1948, the Republican and Democratic parties did something unthinkable in today's climate of ferocious political animosity: They not only held their national conventions in the same city, but shared some of the props.