单词 | one-act |
释义 | one-actadj.n. A. adj. Designating a play or other production consisting of only one act. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [adjective] > types of play gowneda1661 monodramatic1801 one-act1801 Palais Royala1839 knockabout1892 two-part1894 uncut1896 psychodramatic1927 cliff-hanging1930 no-budget1937 kitchen sink1959 single-set1961 a1684 Earl of Roscommon Wks. (1753) 176 The Romans had..three plays acted, one after another, on the same subject; the first a real Tragedy; the second the Attellane; the third a Satyr or Exode, a kind of Farce of one act.] 1801 S. J. Arnold Veteran Tar Pref. The slender plot of this Opera is borrowed from a French One-act piece, entitled ‘Le Petit Matelot’. 1872 J. R. Planché Recoll. I. iv. 73 My theatrical labours in the year 1825 terminated with the production at the Adelphi..of a one-act piece on the 12th December, entitled ‘Success; or a Hit if you like it’. 1888 Playgoers' Mag. Feb. 45 The story of Carton's self-sacrifice would form a touching little one-act play. 1912 E. Nesbit Let. in D. L. Moore E. Nesbit (1933) xv. 269 I have had a one-act play accepted by a London manager. 1967 Oxf. Compan. Theatre (ed. 3) 223/2 The one-act play survives mainly in the productions of the amateur theatre in England and America. 1990 Opera Now May 74/2 Bizet had just received the Prix de Rome in 1862, and putting aside a one-act opera, churned all the hopes and fears of a twenty-four-year-old into this magnificent work. 2000 Sunday Times 29 July (Culture section) 21/3 From quiet to loud, from gentle to thunderous, the random sound-storm builds dramatically into an engrossing one-act symphony. B. n. = one-acter n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > other types of play king play1469 king game1504 historya1509 chronicle history1600 monology1608 horseplaya1627 piscatory1631 stock play1708 petite pièce1712 mimic1724 ballad opera1730 ballad farce1735 benefit-play1740 potboiler1783 monodrama1793 extravaganza1797 theo-drama1801 monodrame1803 proverb1803 stock piece1804 bespeak1807 ticket-night1812 dramaticle1813 monopolylogue1819 pièce d'occasion1830 interlude1831 mimea1834 costume piece1834 mummers' play1849 history play1850 gag-piece1860 music drama1874 well-made1881 playlet1884 two-decker1884 slum1885 kinderspiel1886 thrill1886 knockabout1887 two-hander1888 front-piece1889 thriller1889 shadow-play1890 mime play1894 problem play1894 one-acter1895 sex play1899 chronicle drama1902 thesis-play1902 star vehicle1904 folk-play1905 radio play1908 tab1915 spy play1919 one-act1920 pièce à thèse1923 dance-drama1924 a mess of plottage1926 turkey1927 weepie1928 musical1930 cliffhanger1931 mime drama1931 triangle drama1931 weeper1934 spine-chiller1940 starrer1941 scorcher1942 teleplay1947 straw-hatter1949 pièce noire1951 pièce rose1951 tab show1951 conversation piece1952 psychodrama1956 whydunit1968 mystery play1975 State of the Nation1980 1920 G. P. Baker Mod. Amer. Plays p. viii Plots and Playwrights, with its prologue, three one acts slightly connected, its long burlesque, and its epilogue, is..an interesting example. 1940 G. Marx Let. 5 Sept. in G. Marx et al. Groucho Lett. (1967) 25 El Capitan..has done magnificently with the Coward one-acts. 1983 P. Fussell Class vii. 164 One can hear even fairly classy people in the theater speaking not of one-acts but of one-acters. 1993 New Republic 8 Mar. 40/3 Unlike Ibsen, Taylor is not a master of the dramatic form, and his one-acts are creakily explicit. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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