RBMS Controlled Vocabularies: Genre Terms

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: Literary forms (Gathering term; do not assign)

:     SN: Gathering term; do not use; index under a narrower term.

Plays

. Acting editions

.     SN: Use for plays with extensive printed production information.

. Christmas pantomimes

.     SN: Use for the style of British theater, often performed at
. Christmas, which dramatizes a fairy tale or nursery story
. and features songs, dance, topical jokes, buffoonery, etc.,
. with leading characters played by members of the opposite
. sex.

. Comedies

.. Farces

.. Harlequinades (Plays)

. Film scripts

. Folk plays

. Heroic dramas

. Masques

. Morality plays

.     SN: Use for allegorical plays of the type which offer
. discourses in praise of morality between actors
. representing characters such as Charity, Faith, Death, etc.

. Promptbooks

.     SN: Use for plays with manuscript production annotations.

. Puppet plays

. Radio plays

. Religious plays

.. Miracle plays

..     SN: Use for medieval religious plays based on legends of saints
.. or martyrs, or on miracles performed by saints or sacred
.. objects.

.. Mystery plays

..     SN: Use for medieval religious plays based on scriptural
.. incidents.

... Passion plays

...     SN: Use for plays representing the Passion of Jesus Christ.

.. Rappresentazioni

..     SN: Use for religious dramas of popular origin which were most
.. commonly performed in the churches and public squares of
.. central Italian cities, most common in the 15th century.

. Scenarios

.     SN: Use for plot outlines of dramatic works.

. Television plays

. Tragedies

. Tragicomedies

.     HN: 6/99 Term added.

.     SN: Use for plays that combine the qualities of tragedy and
. comedy, often those which employ a plot suitable for
. tragedy but end happily.

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