well-made play

短语

词形变化

well-made plays 复数 well-made plays

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A play belonging to a 19th-century neoclassical theatrical genre involving a tight plot and a climax close to the end. The story depends upon a key piece of information kept from some characters, and moves forward in a chain of actions that use minor reversals of fortune to create suspense.

词源

Calque of French pièce bien faite, developed by the French dramatist Eugène Scribe (1791–1861).

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