One-act play

Japanese: 一幕物 - ひとまくもの（英語表記）one-act play

A type of drama that is performed without an intermission. It may be divided into several scenes, but usually it deals with consecutive events occurring in the same scene, and its structure is relatively simple. This concept became particularly clear after the establishment of modern drama, which strictly defines the boundaries of time and space. Shakespeare's plays were originally performed without an intermission, but they contain many leaps in time and space, so they are not called one-act plays.

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Japanese:

戯曲の一種で，幕間なしで演じられるものをいう。いくつかの場面に分れていることもあるが，普通は同じ場面で連続して起る事件を扱い，その構成も比較的単純である。時間と空間の枠を厳密に定める近代劇が確立してから，特に明らかになった概念。シェークスピア劇などはもともと幕間なしに演じられてはいたが，時間や空間の飛躍を多く含むので一幕物とは呼ばない。

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