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Siddons, the leading tragedienne of her era, is shown during a dramatic reading A student of Yogyakarta State University performing a dramatic reading of a short story Oral interpretation is a dramatic art, also commonly called "interpretive reading" and "dramatic reading", though these terms are more conservative and restrictive.
Empedocles on Etna is a dramatic poem or closet drama in two acts written by the Victorian poet-critic Matthew Arnold and first published, anonymously, in 1852. [1] [2] The poem describes the philosophic contemplations and suicidal ravings of the ancient Greek philosopher Empedocles (c. 494 – c. 434 BC) and his legendary death in the fires of Mount Etna on Sicily.
Dramatic verse occurs in a dramatic work, such as a play, composed in poetic form.The tradition of dramatic verse extends at least as far back as ancient Greece.. The English Renaissance saw the height of dramatic verse in the English-speaking world, with playwrights including Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare developing new techniques, both for dramatic structure and ...
Canaäd, an epic poem reconstructing Canaanite mythology, set during the Late Bronze Age. Epic of Bamana Segu, oral epic of the Bambara people, composed in the 19th century and recorded in the 20th century; Epic of Darkness, tales and legends of primeval China; Epic of Jangar, poem of the Oirat people
Influential critic H. L. Mencken said of Sterling: “I think his dramatic poem Lilith was the greatest thing he ever wrote.” [1] The New York Times declared Lilith “the finest thing in poetic drama yet done in America and one of the finest poetic dramas yet written in English.” [2] Author Theodore Dreiser said: “It rings richer in ...
Performance poetry is not solely a postmodern phenomenon. It began with the performance of oral poems in pre-literate societies. By definition, these poems were transmitted orally from performer to performer and were constructed using devices such as repetition, alliteration, rhyme and kennings to facilitate memorization and recall.
The form of readers theater is similar to the recitations of epic poetry in fifth–century Greece [3] [2] and public readings in later centuries by Charles Dickens and Mark Twain. [4] Although group dramatic readings had been popular since at least the early 1800s, the first use of the term "readers theater" is attributed to a New York group. [2]
Manfred: A dramatic poem is a closet drama written in 1816–1817 by Lord Byron. It contains supernatural elements, in keeping with the popularity of the ghost story in England at the time. It is a typical example of Gothic fiction .