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Meanings of verse drama in English

Russian
драматическая поэма
Spanish
drama poetico

Drama written as verse to be spoken.

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        драматическая поэма
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        Examples for "dramatic verse"
        Examples for "dramatic verse"
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        But of his non- dramatic verse we shall speak in the next chapter.
        A History of English Literature
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        The only non-satirical poetry primarily inspired by Stoicism is the dramatic verse of Seneca.
        Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
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        The head responded with some twenty lines of dramatic verse.
        Hiding the Elephant
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        How he had come there his elastic tongue explained in tropes and puns and lines of dramatic verse.
        Evan Harrington — Complete
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        The theory will not hold, however, in much dramatic verse, or in meditative blank verse, as used by Wordsworth.
        Sidney Lanier
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        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...
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        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...
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        For the poetic drama, after a bad start, was now plunging into worse depths of dulness.
        The Little Warrior
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        For the poetic drama, after a bad start, was now plunging into worse depths of dullness.
        Jill the Reckless
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        In another respect, however, dramatic poetry is essentially different from the lyrical.
        The Principles of Aesthetics
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        From this we may conceive wherein consists the great charm of dramatic poetry.
        Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
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        For dramatic poetry we have to wait until the fourteenth century.
        Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic
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        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 verse drama in English
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        So I reserve the right to return to verse drama one day.
        The Guardian
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        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")
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        It is a verse drama in eight acts, centred about one of Hamsun's most typical vagabond heroes.
        Hunger
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        He also notably revived verse drama with plays such as Murder in the Cathedral (1935).
        The Irish Times
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        The mechanics of verse drama should happen behind the scenes, allowing the audience to experience the characters and story.
        The Guardian
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        And a form of verse drama that would lay this play alongside the greatest literature in the English language?
        The Guardian
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        It should be read and -it's a verse drama -performed, as it was earlier this year on Radio 4.
        The Guardian
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        Whether, and how far, the blank verse drama can nowadays be regarded as a vital and viable form is a question to be considered later.
        Play-Making: A Manual of Craftsmanship
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        Perhaps it was because he wrote verse dramas like Mario.
        Travels With My Aunt
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        Verse is one thing (and a thing I knew very little about), but verse drama?
        The Guardian
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        "Blank verse dramas are difficult things to publish," he said.
        The Journal of Arthur Stirling : ("The Valley of the Shadow")
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        "A blank verse drama!"
        The Journal of Arthur Stirling : ("The Valley of the Shadow")
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