Competition at the Dionysian festivals needed dramatic conventions for plays to be judged, but it also fuelled innovations.

In Aristophanes' early plays, the genre appears to have developed around a complex set of dramatic conventions and these were only gradually simplified and abandoned.

Such a bed trick has been a dramatic convention since antiquity.

Especially in his early plays, he was drawing on dramatic conventions that can be traced back to medieval forms of theater.

The mythic natural setting of the original is simply a dramatic convention of the period and has little to do with the work's substance.

Then there are the plays and operas, which defy centuries of dramatic convention.

The victims in this dramatic convention may become second leads.

Hamlet departed from contemporary dramatic convention in several ways.

The play itself was also slightly modernised in keeping with seventeenth-century dramatic conventions, but in the main the spoken text is as Shakespeare wrote it.

He referred to a dramatic convention in Japan, myster- ies based on how efficiently the nation's trains ran.