chronicle play
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of chronicle play
First recorded in 1900–05
Example Sentences
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The recorder had featured in his incidental music for the 1970 BBC radio production of John Ford's chronicle play Perkin Warbeck, and Dodgson remembered vividly the dynamic playing of David Munrow in the sessions.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 15, 2013
The first third is little more than competent chronicle play; it is not till the second third that it becomes vibrantly Shavian; and not till the final third that it grows demonstrably great.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1960 Britain's Robert Bolt re-examined the matter of More in a superb chronicle play.
From Time Magazine Archive
The spectacular features are a characteristic element, a battle-scene being perhaps the most indispensable element or ingredient of a chronicle play, but this again fails to supply even more than a superficial criterion.
From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.
The Battle of Alcazar and David and Bethsabe follow this method as completely as his avowedly chronicle play, Edward the First.
From The Growth of English Drama by Wynne, Arnold
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