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chronicle play

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chronicle play
n.
A dramatization of historical material, especially the Elizabethan dramas based on the chronicle histories of England.
chronicle play
n
(Performing Arts / Theatre) a drama based on a historical subject
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The poet and playwright John Drinkwater (best known for his chronicle plays which include Abraham Lincoln, Mary Stuart, Oliver Cromwell, Robert E.
The English years of Robert Frost by Hart, Linda / Contemporary Review
More complex and multivalent than at first it appears, this particular chronicle play not only presents itself as a panegyric of English heroism and national pride (including an allusion to the defeat of the Spanish Armada); (20) it also casts a critical light upon the problems inherent in absolute monarchy as exemplified by the dangerous conduct of a figure such as Edward III who is at once glamorous and repellent, brave and unfeeling, virtuous and potentially vicious.
Royal carnality and illicit desire in the English history plays of ... by Forker, Charles R. / Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
Hence the chief bait it "propose[s] to adventurous minds, to encourage them forward" is the prospect of sharing, at some unspecified level, in the "immortalitie" normally bestowed by the chronicle play on such dead English heroes as "brave Talbot," Edward III, or Henry V.
"Awake remembrance of these valiant dead": Henry V and the politics ... by Thorne, Alison / Shakespeare Studies
 
 
 
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