36 dramatic situations

[CRNDLSM]

The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations is a descriptive list which was first proposed by Georges Polti in 1895 to categorize every dramatic situation that might occur in a story or performance. Polti analyzed classical Greek texts, plus classical and contemporaneous French works.

Apparently everything fits one of these categories, but it's a pretty old idea, are there more?

[busker]

googling, i found this gem:

There are only two plots in all of literature:
1) A person goes on a journey.
2) A stranger comes to town.


https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/05/06/two-plots/

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Further exposited as (by a female writer, later on):

“John Gardner once said that there are only two plots in all of literature: You go on a journey, or the stranger comes to town. Since women, for so many years, were denied the journey, we were left with only one plot in our lives — to await the stranger.” Always, the stranger is a man.

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And that's true, if you look at the plot points in Wuthering Heights - the return of Heathcliff, or....well, I haven't read that many women writers
Excepting Agatha Christie. And her murder mysteries are all about a mysterious culprit who came into the library at half past six on a Wednesday evening as Lord Rathbone was opening his letters with a pen knife, aren't they?
Speaking of which, it's a tragedy that the class system no longer exists. An entire culture lost to the talentless nasal whining of working class plebs calling themselves The Beatles.

[Tiger the Lion]

googling, i found this gem:

There are only two plots in all of literature:
1) A person goes on a journey.
2) A stranger comes to town.


https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/05/06/two-plots/

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Further exposited as (by a female writer, later on):

“John Gardner once said that there are only two plots in all of literature: You go on a journey, or the stranger comes to town. Since women, for so many years, were denied the journey, we were left with only one plot in our lives — to await the stranger.” Always, the stranger is a man.

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And that's true, if you look at the plot points in Wuthering Heights - the return of Heathcliff, or....well, I haven't read that many women writers
Excepting Agatha Christie. And her murder mysteries are all about a mysterious culprit who came into the library at half past six on a Wednesday evening as Lord Rathbone was opening his letters with a pen knife, aren't they?
Speaking of which, it's a tragedy that the class system no longer exists. An entire culture lost to the talentless nasal whining of working class plebs calling themselves The Beatles.

I've read a similar quote from Stephen King. I can't find the exact quote at the moment but it goes to the effect of " I don't need to begin with a story. I just put two dissimilar people in the same room and watch what happens."