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Like in Elizabethan drama where the setting is elaborately described in the course of the dialogue, in Oscar Wilde's THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, the setting is not described in the narrative but in the witty conversation of the characters. Like in Greek tragedy where there are two or three characters speaking, in DORIAN GRAY, Wilde depends on three characters, Dorian, Lord Henry and Basil, in the construction of the novel