• Supplication
• Deliverance
• Crime pursued by vengeance
• Vengeance taken for kin upon kin
• Pursuit
• Disaster
• Falling prey to cruelty/misfortune
• Revolt
• Daring enterprise
• Abduction
• The enigma
• Obtaining
• Enmity of kin
• Rivalry of kin
• Murderous adultery
• Madness
• Fatal imprudence
• Involuntary crimes of love
• Slaying of kin unrecognized
• Self-sacrifice for an ideal
• Self-sacrifice for kin
• All sacrificed for passion
• Necessity of sacrificing loved ones
• Rivalry of superior vs. inferior
• Adultery
• Crimes of love
• Discovery of the dishonour of a loved one
• Obstacles to love
• An enemy loved
• Ambition
• Conflict with a god
• Mistaken jealousy
• Erroneous judgment
• Remorse
• Recovery of a lost one
• Loss of loved ones

List proposed by Georges Polti in 1895 (continuation of Carlo Gozzi's work, who also proposed a list of 36 scenarios). The list categorizes every possible dramatic situation that can occur in a story or a performance / play. Mainly based on classical Greek texts.