heroic drama
Americannoun
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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
The above dates are enough to disprove the common belief that the heroic drama, rhymed couplet and all, was imported from France.
From English literary criticism by Various
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