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