Understanding Terminology That Describes Drama - CLEP Humanities

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Who wrote the plays King Lear and Richard III?

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William Shakespeare wrote several historical plays in addition to his comedies and tragedies. The histories focus on English history, especially the Wars of the Roses. The Wars of the Roses were English civil wars that happened in the 1400s.

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The phrase "Chekhov's Gun" refers to the dramatic storytelling proposition that __________.

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"Chekhov's Gun" is named after the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, who once commented, "If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there." The term is now used to describe any small element that is introduced into the story to be used later in the plotline.

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