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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Example Sentences

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

He lost that opportunity because he could not create the necessary heroic drama — the one in which he was not sullenly subverting the presidential election but selflessly upholding its real results.

From Salon

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

Those of us who saw Maria Calegari here can never forget the heroic drama she made of this.

From New York Times

Indeed, although, in action, the latter exhibits a larger proportion of that extravagant achievement peculiar to the heroic drama, it may be questioned, whether the language of Maximin does not abound more with the flights of fancy, which hover betwixt the confines of the grand and the bombast, and which our author himself has aptly termed the Dalilahs of the theatre.

From Project Gutenberg