Aparté: Dialogue that a character speaks aside, which only the audience is meant to hear.

Bienséance: Adherence to moral and aesthetic conventions.

Burlesque: Comedy that attributes a low style to serious subjects or characters. Exaggerated comedy.

Comic: Collection of elements that provoke laughter. Physical comedy, wordplay, situational comedy, character comedy.

Chorus: Group of characters who intervene collectively, in the form of dance or song.

Denouement: Element that resolves the plot.

Didascalies: Stage directions (setting, tone, gestures...)

Bourgeois drama: Second half of the 18th century. Characterized by a rejection of the genres of classical comedy and tragedy. A desire to reach truth and imitate nature.

Romantic drama: Reevaluation of tragic theater, retaining only the unity of action, emphasizing the fate of man within a historical situation.

Grotesque: Caricatural comedy that distorts reality.

Plot: Set of events that constitute the play and allow for twists and turns.

Performance: Manner in which actors represent the play.

Mime: Imitation of an action performed solely through gestures.

Staging: Set of scenic choices (setting, performance...)

Monologue: Spoken scene where a character converses with themselves.

Prologue: Part of the play that precedes the entrance of the chorus in Greek theater.

Misunderstanding: Situation of confusion.

Rule of three unities: Rule of classical theater that, in addition to verisimilitude, imposes a single action (unity of action), over a period of 24 hours (unity of time), and in a single location (unity of place).

Lines: Text spoken by a character during a theatrical dialogue.

Satire: Text that ridicules.

Sketch: Short comedic play in one scene.

Exposition scene: Initial part of a play.

Stichomythia: Short exchanges between two characters.

Tragedy: Theatrical action based on fate and fatality.