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Meanings of poetic drama in English

Russian
драма
Portuguese
drama
Catalan
drama
Spanish
drama
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Artwork intended for performance, formal type of literature.

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        драма
        Russian
        драматическая поэма
        Spanish
        drama poetico

        Drama written as verse to be spoken.

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              драматическая поэма
              Synonyms
              Examples for "verse drama"
              Examples for "verse drama"
              1
              So I reserve the right to return to verse drama one day.
              The Guardian
              2
              Your reason for declining it, then, is not altogether that it is a blank- verse drama?
              The Journal of Arthur Stirling : ("The Valley of the Shadow")
              3
              It is a verse drama in eight acts, centred about one of Hamsun's most typical vagabond heroes.
              Hunger
              4
              He also notably revived verse drama with plays such as Murder in the Cathedral (1935).
              The Irish Times
              5
              The mechanics of verse drama should happen behind the scenes, allowing the audience to experience the characters and story.
              The Guardian
              1
              But of his non- dramatic verse we shall speak in the next chapter.
              A History of English Literature
              2
              The only non-satirical poetry primarily inspired by Stoicism is the dramatic verse of Seneca.
              Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
              3
              The head responded with some twenty lines of dramatic verse.
              Hiding the Elephant
              4
              How he had come there his elastic tongue explained in tropes and puns and lines of dramatic verse.
              Evan Harrington — Complete
              5
              The theory will not hold, however, in much dramatic verse, or in meditative blank verse, as used by Wordsworth.
              Sidney Lanier
              1
              In another respect, however, dramatic poetry is essentially different from the lyrical.
              The Principles of Aesthetics
              2
              From this we may conceive wherein consists the great charm of dramatic poetry.
              Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
              3
              For dramatic poetry we have to wait until the fourteenth century.
              Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic
              4
              There was an end of dramatic poetry, as it was understood under Elizabeth.
              A Book of the Play / Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Sto...
              5
              Has dramatic poetry ever created such a display of conflicting emotions?
              Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02: Jewish Heroes and Prophets
              Usage of poetic drama in English
              1
              Your type of mind always responds quickly to the poetic drama.
              The Shadow of the North: A Story of Old New York and a Lost Camp...
              2
              He wrote: Photography by itself cannot make poetic drama.
              The Irish Times
              3
              Sylvain Kohn took him to the poetic drama.
              Jean-Christophe in Paris: The Market-Place, Antoinette, the Hous...
              4
              For the poetic drama, after a bad start, was now plunging into worse depths of dulness.
              The Little Warrior
              5
              For the poetic drama, after a bad start, was now plunging into worse depths of dullness.
              Jill the Reckless
              6
              Modern poetic drama-It'sthat or nothing, you know.
              The Divine Fire
              7
              At first glance, poetic drama hasn't been having a great time of it for a while now.
              The Guardian
              8
              Glenessa's most ambitious work, and the one that gives the title to his book, is a poetic drama about the Garden of Eden.
              Reviews
              9
              What, do you ask, has such a poetic drama to do with such a commonplace subject as health or the prolonging of life?
              How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfaction...
              10
              The recognition that is given in England to literary or poetic drama, alike of the past and present, is chiefly notable for its irregularity.
              Shakespeare and the Modern Stage; with Other Essays
              11
              This "Hamlet" may be closer to inspired collage than to poetic drama, but it releases the old fable with its emotional force intact.
              The new yorker
              12
              But I refuse to believe it's just me who hears the words " poetic drama" and first imagines something slowly woven from pastel shades of twee.
              The Guardian
              13
              "The drama," said George without hesitation, "the poetic drama.
              On Something
              14
              His six years with them initiated him into the technique of stagecraft, which he later applied in the writing of his poetic dramas.
              Halleck's New English Literature