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heroic drama

American  

noun

  1. Restoration tragedy, especially that popular in England c1660–1700, using highly rhetorical language and written in heroic couplets.


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With $50,000 raised among donors, the Harrison Gray Otis Memorial Assn. hired Troubetzkoy, who conceived of the deceased man’s life as a heroic drama.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024

It’s a comparatively light heroic drama that focuses as much on Spider-Man’s crush on a classmate as it does on his superhero battles.

From The Verge ● Jul. 10, 2017

Breathless before a bigger, more heroic drama than Hitler's bombshell had been, correspondents saw something new in history develop as the week closed.

From Time Magazine Archive

The play is a kind of twilit allegory, a heroic drama that beats its swords into similes a work whose verbal abundance begets theatrical poverty.

From Time Magazine Archive

The exaggerations of the heroic drama are the exaggerations of the metaphysical poets transferred from the study to the stage; with the extravagance deepened, as was natural, by the glare of their new surroundings.

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