Abstract
The captions are the author’s indications in a dramatic text. We set out to investigate this particular aspect of dramaturgy, with application to several plays by Dumitru Crudu, in order to reveal how they contribute to the overall message of a play and to record their evolution over time. This component of the dramatic work is of particular interest to us because for a certain period of time, captions were neglected even by literary critics. However, they play their part in the construction of the text. Then, there are several types of captions, classifications that deserve to be analysed and that will allow us to understand how we catalogue and interpret the captions used by Dumitru Crudu.