The+Thirty-Six+Dramatic+Situations

[|//**The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations**//] is a descriptive list which was created by [|Georges Polti] to categorize every dramatic situation that might occur in a story or performance. To do this Polti analyzed classical [|Greek] texts, plus classical and contemporaneous [|French] works. He also analyzed a handful of non-French authors. In his introduction, Polti claims to be continuing the work of [|Carlo Gozzi], who also identified 36 situations.

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