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Definition of Dramatic composition

1. Noun. A play for performance on the stage or television or in a movie etc..

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dramatic Composition

Literary usage of Dramatic composition

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Law of Property in Intellectual Productions in Great by Eaton Sylvester Drone (1879)
"COMPREHENSIVE MEANING OP DRAMATIC'COMPOSITION. ... The depiction of action is an essential and distinguishing feature of a dramatic composition. ..."

2. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters. With an Historical Sketch of the by Henry Norman Hudson (1888)
"... dramatic composition. Shakespeare's dramas—not all of them indeed, but those which were written after he reached what may be called his mastership — are ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"abundantly excelled, and collected a vast amount of learning on dramatic composition iu general, which was doomed to perish, with so many other treasures, ..."

4. American law register by University of Pennsylvania Dept. of Law (1869)
"When a dramatic composition i* represente<l, in dialogue ami action, by person» who represent it as real, by performing or going through with the various ..."

5. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1914)
"dramatic composition A stage performance consisting of the singing of well-known songs by a woman dressed to personate other singers, ..."

6. Memoirs of the Opera in Italy, France, Germany, and England by George Hogarth (1851)
"... THE NOBILITY'S OPERA — OPPOSITION TO HANDEL—RUINOUS CONSEQUENCES TO HIM HE ABANDONS dramatic composition — CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF HIS ITALIAN OPERAS—HIS ..."

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