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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

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

But the play lacks the simple intensity of heroic drama; it shares its villain's love of tricks, and is too full of jagged effects to produce a sustained emotion.

From Time Magazine Archive

It all came very swiftly, the shift from the dithyramb as Spring Song to the heroic drama was accomplished in something much under a century.

From Ancient Art and Ritual by Harrison, Jane Ellen