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You are here: Home / Shakespeareâs Plays / Shakespeareâs Five Act Structure. When you read a Shakespeare play youâll probably notice that itâs divided into acts and scenes â and always has a five act structure. The number of scenes in each act vary but there are always be five acts, no exceptions.
One structural unit that is still useful to playwrights today, is the  French scene , which is a scene in a play where the beginning and end are marked by a change in the makeup of the group of characters onstage, rather than by the lights going up or down or the set being changed.his meant that the playwright had to construct the play so that its virtual time would not exceed 24 hours, that it would be restricted to a single setting, and that there would be no subplots. Other terms, such as verisimilitude and decorum, circumscribed the subject matter significantly.