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Definition of Dramatic art
1. Noun. The art of writing and producing plays.
Examples of category: Amphitheater, Amphitheatre, Closed-circuit Television, House, Theater, Theatre, Dramatic Irony, Flies, Place, Seat, Booking Clerk, Ticket Agent, Act, Play, Playact, Roleplay, Stooge, Enter, Support, Star, Appear, Co-star, Ham, Ham It Up, Overact, Overplay, Underact, Underplay, Upstage, Downstage
Generic synonyms: Communicating, Communication
Specialized synonyms: Stage
Terms within: Dramatic Composition, Dramatic Work
Derivative terms: Dramaturgic, Dramaturgical, Theatrical, Theatrical
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dramatic Art
Literary usage of Dramatic art
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Horace Howard Furness (1913)
"... about and survives their fate, must soon wear him to the grave. Dr. HERMANN ULRICI.
('SA.'s dramatic art; 1839. Translated by AJWM London, 1846. ..."
2. European Theories of the Drama: An Anthology of Dramatic Theory and by Barrett Harper Clark (1918)
"His lectures on dramatic art constitute a brief history as well as a vital
criticism of the drama from its beginnings. These lectures were trans- . lated ..."
3. European Theories of the Drama: An Anthology of Dramatic Theory and by Barrett Harper Clark (1918)
"His lectures on dramatic art constitute a brief history as well as a vital
criticism of the drama from its beginnings. These lectures were translated into ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... to use in later life; and the vicinity of Tarentum afforded him favorable
opportunities for familiarizing himself with the dramatic art of Greece. ..."
5. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"By contributing to this impulse, the dramatic art has diffused in all civilized
nations an amount of innocent and wholesome pleasure it would be impossible ..."
6. The Monthly Review (1839)
"The Past and Present State of dramatic art and Literature. London: Mitchell.
1839. THIS pamphlet contains the most feasible, the best considered, ..."
7. The Gentleman's Magazine (1887)
"It is difficult to account for its steady growth during the last thirty years,
more especially as all the widely recognised canons of dramatic art properly ..."
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