well-made play

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
    — Ultimately Ibsen denies the basic philosophy of the well-made play, that there is meaning and progress in time, and that all human beings are rational creatures, subject to the reassuring process of cause and effect.

词形变化

well-made plays plural

词源

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