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heroic drama

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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

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

They have evolved through the last decade a vast pageant of heroic drama and gentle eclogue, of delectable gaiety and dispirited lust, of mordant wit, glittering intellect, grey despair, apocalyptic spectacle and somber religious depth.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the most unmistakable and the most glaring mark of the new method it was naturally placed in the forefront of the battle waged by Dryden in defence of the heroic drama.

From English literary criticism by Various

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