Three-act structure
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"First act" redirects here. For the musical instrument manufacturer, see First Act.
"Second act" redirects here. For other uses, see Second Act.
"Third act" redirects here. For the album by Evil Masquerade, see Third Act.
The three-act structure is a model used in narrative fiction that divides a story into three parts (acts), often called the Setup, the Confrontation, and the Resolution. It was popularized by Syd Field in his 1979 book Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting. Based on his recommendation that a play have a "beginning, middle, and end," the structure has been falsely attributed to Aristotle, who in fact argued for a two-act structure consisting of a "complication" and "dénouement" split by a peripeteia.[1]
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