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dramatic, a. (n.)|drəˈmætɪk|
[ad. late L. drāmatic-us, a. Gr. δρᾱµατικός pertaining to drama, f. δρᾶµα, δράµατ- drama: (cf. F. dramatique).]
A. adj.
1. Of, pertaining to, or connected with the, or a, drama; dealing with or employing the forms of the drama. dramatic soprano: see quot. 1961.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. xv. (Arb.) 49 Foure sundry formes of Poesie Drammatick..to wit, the Satyre, olde Comedie, new Comedie, and Tragedie. c1680J. Aubrey in Shaks. C. Praise 383 He began early to make essayes at Dramatique Poetry. 1710C. Gildon Life T. Betterton p. vi, The Graces of Action and Utterance come naturally under the Consideration of a Dramatic Writer. 1791Burke Corr. (1844) III. 196, I have never written any dramatic piece whatsoever. 1824W. Irving T. Trav. I. 280 The dramatic corps. 1826Blackw. Mag. XIX. 197 (title) On cant in dramatic criticism. Ibid. 198/1 Justice and honesty require, that the bread of a performer, or the character of an author, shall not be sacrificed to the dull sport or the heedless haste of paragraphs in the newspapers. These are now almost the sole vehicles of dramatic criticism. 1864Round Table 2 Jan. 43/3 Dramatic critics in New York. The use of the term ‘Critic’ in this heading is a misuse of English, but as the persons of whom we have now to write lay claim to the honorable appelation, we venture to treat it thus badly—on this occasion. Ibid. 43/3 Out of this mass of moral and physical corruption has come for years the greater portion of ‘Dramatic Criticism’ in New York. 1879C. E. Pascoe Dramatic Notes 29 That competent dramatic writer, Mr. Charles Reade. 1885Mabel Collins Prettiest Woman viii, She played the part of the dramatic critic. 1907W. Raleigh Shakespeare 229/2 (Index), Irony, dramatic. 1926Fowler Mod. Eng. Usage 295/2 Dramatic irony, i.e. the irony of the Greek drama... The surface meaning for the dramatis personae, & the underlying for the spectators. 1942Partridge Usage & Abusage 167/2 Dramatic irony is that which consists in a situation—not in words;..when the audience in a theatre or the reader of a book perceives a crux, a significance, a point, that the characters concerned do not perceive. 1946Penguin Music Mag. Dec. 44, I heard a female, who called herself a dramatic soprano, screech and bawl. 1961A. Berkman Gloss. Show Business Jargon 19 Dramatic soprano, the strongest of the female voices, with a range up to about high C.
2. Characteristic of, or appropriate to, the drama; often connoting animated action or striking presentation, as in a play; theatrical.
1725Pope Odyss. Postcr., The whole structure of that work [Iliad] is dramatick and full of action. 1778Foote Trip Calais iii. Wks. 1799 II. 378 There seems to be a kind of dramatic justice in the change of your two situations. 1855G. Brimley Ess., Tennyson 9 That dramatic unity demanded in works of art. 1878Lecky Eng. in 18th C. (1883) I. 176 The destruction of a great and ancient institution is an eminently dramatic thing.
B. n.
†1. A dramatic poet; a dramatist. Obs.
1646G. Daniel Poems Wks. 1878 I. 30 Hee was, of English Drammatickes, the Prince. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) I. 164 No longer shall Dramatics be confin'd To draw true Images of all Mankind. a1741Gray Lett. Wks. 1884 II. 109 Put me the following lines into the tongue of our modern dramatics.
2. pl. Dramatic compositions or representations; the drama. Also transf. and fig.
1684W. Winstanley Eng. Worthies, Shaks. 345–7 In all his writings hath an unvulgar Style, as well in his..Poems, as in his Drammaaticks. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) I. 265 We read epicks and dramaticks, as we do satirs and lampoons. 1796G. Colman in R. B. Peake Mem. Colman Family (1841) II. viii. 253 They who are experienced in dramatics will, I trust, see that I have made a fair ‘extenuation’ of myself. 1880C. Keene Let. in G. S. Layard Life x. (1892) 308 The prevailing mania for dramatics. 1936L. C. Douglas White Banners xvi. 338 There was no need to dramatize it..; the strange chronicle furnished its own dramatics. 1957P. Kemp Mine were of Trouble ix. 181 Running forward—I realize now, of course, that this was the most puerile dramatics—I seized the flag and ran back with it. |