dramaticadj.n.

Brit.

/drəˈmatɪk/, U.S.

/drəˈmædɪk/

Etymology: < late Latin drāmaticus, < Greek δρᾱματικός pertaining to drama, < δρᾶμα , δράματ- drama n.: (compare French 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 n. see quot. 1961.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [adjective]

dramatic1589

histrionian1607

dramatical1640

Thespian1675

dramaturgic1831

dramaturgical1865

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xv. 27 Foure sundry formes of Poesie Drammatick..to wit, the Satyre, old Comedie, new Comedie, and Tragedie.

c1680 J. Aubrey in C. M. Ingleby & L. T. Smith Shakespeare's Cent. Prayse (1879) 383 He began early to make essayes at Dramatique Poetry.

1710 C. Gildon Life T. Betterton p. vi The Graces of Action and Utterance come naturally under the Consideration of a Dramatic Writer.

1791 E. Burke Corr. (1844) III. 196 I have never written any dramatic piece whatsoever.

1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 280 The dramatic corps.

1826 Blackwood's Mag. 19 197 (title) On cant in dramatic criticism.

1826 Blackwood's Mag. 19 198/1 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.

1864 Round 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.

1864 Round Table 2 Jan. 43/3 Out of this mass of moral and physical corruption has come for years the greater portion of ‘Dramatic Criticism’ in New York.

1879 C. E. Pascoe Dram. Notes 29 That competent dramatic writer, Mr. Charles Reade.

1885 M. Collins Prettiest Woman in Warsaw I. viii. 131 He was continually..playing the part of the dramatic critic.

1946 Penguin Music Mag. Dec. 44 I heard a female, who called herself a dramatic soprano, screech and bawl.

1961 A. Berkman Singers' 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.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > spectacular, sensational, or dramatic display > [adjective]

theatric1656

spectacular1682

theatrical1709

dramatic1726

sensationary1755

pyrotechnical1825

grandstand1835

pyrotechnic1848

sensational1859

razzle-dazzle1888

whizz-bang1919

glitzy1966

1726 A. Pope in tr. Homer Odyssey V. Postscr. 265 The whole structure of that work [Iliad] is Dramatick and full of action.

a1777 S. Foote Trip to Calais (1778) iii. 90 There seems to be a kind of dramatic justice in the change of your two situations.

1855 G. Brimley Ess. (1858) i. 9 That dramatic unity demanded in works of art.

1878 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. (1883) I. 176 The destruction of a great and ancient institution is an eminently dramatic thing.

B. n.

†1. A dramatic poet; a dramatist. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > playwriting > [noun] > playwright

playmaker1530

playmonger1593

playwright1605

playwritera1626

stage-wright1631

dramatica1657

factist1676

dramatist1678

dramaturgist1825

playwrightess1831

dramatizer1833

dramaturge1870

a1657 G. Daniel Poems (1878) I. 30 Hee was, of English Drammatickes, the Prince.

a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 164 No longer shall Dramatics be confin'd To draw true Images of all Mankind.

1742 T. Gray Let. 8 Apr. in Corr. (1971) I. 193 Put me the following lines into the tongue of our modern dramatics.

2. plural. Dramatic compositions or representations; the drama. Also transferred and figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [noun]

sock and buskin1597

scene1616

drama1661

theatre1668

dramatics1684

dramaturgy1801

proscenium1812

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [noun] > dramatic performance

scene1572

representation?1589

presentationa1616

scene work1642

dramatics1796

dramaticalc1826

dramaturgy1837

theatricalitya1871

stage-work1906

1684 W. Winstanley England's Worthies: Shakespeare 345–7 In all his writings hath an unvulgar Style, as well in his..Poems, as in his Drammaaticks.

1710 Ld. Shaftesbury Soliloquy 108 We read Epicks and Dramaticks as we do Satyrs and Lampoons.

1796 G. Colman Iron Chest Pref. p. xix They who are experienced in Dramaticks will, I trust, see that I have made a fair extenuation of myself.

1880 C. Keene Let. in G. S. Layard Life & Lett. C. S. Keene (1892) x. 308 The prevailing mania for dramatics.

1936 L. C. Douglas White Banners xvi. 338 There was no need to dramatize it..; the strange chronicle furnished its own dramatics.

1957 P. 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.

Draft additions 1993

dramatic irony n. Theatre the incongruity created when the (tragic) significance of a character's speech or actions is revealed to the audience but unknown to the character concerned; the literary device so used, originally in Greek tragedy; also in extended use; cf. tragic irony n. at tragic adj. and n. Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > plot > parts of plot

envoy1616

undermirth1640

counter-turn1651

under-walk1651

deus ex machina1697

happy ending1748

dénouement1752

anagnorisis1783

comic relief1783

by-play1812

tragic irony1833

by-plot1851

dramatic irony1881

plot point1909

cliff-hanging1945

subtext1960

1881 A. Sidgwick in Aeschylus Agamemnon 68 The Greek dramas are full of such double meanings, bearing only a single sense to the speaker; and the contrast between the two senses, or between the position of the speaker as he conceived it, and as it was known to the audience, often formed most effective situations, of Dramatic Irony, as it has been called.

1907 W. Raleigh Shakespeare Index 229/2 Irony, dramatic.

1926 H. W. Fowler Dict. 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.

1942 E. Partridge 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.

1978 P. Howard Weasel Words xxiv. 99 Producers of..pantomimes still use this sort of dramatic irony visually.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	dramatic
释义	dramaticadj.n. Brit. /drəˈmatɪk/, U.S. /drəˈmædɪk/ Etymology: < late Latin drāmaticus, < Greek δρᾱματικός pertaining to drama, < δρᾶμα , δράματ- drama n.: (compare French 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 n. see quot. 1961. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [adjective] dramatic1589 histrionian1607 dramatical1640 Thespian1675 dramaturgic1831 dramaturgical1865 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xv. 27 Foure sundry formes of Poesie Drammatick..to wit, the Satyre, old Comedie, new Comedie, and Tragedie. c1680 J. Aubrey in C. M. Ingleby & L. T. Smith Shakespeare's Cent. Prayse (1879) 383 He began early to make essayes at Dramatique Poetry. 1710 C. Gildon Life T. Betterton p. vi The Graces of Action and Utterance come naturally under the Consideration of a Dramatic Writer. 1791 E. Burke Corr. (1844) III. 196 I have never written any dramatic piece whatsoever. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 280 The dramatic corps. 1826 Blackwood's Mag. 19 197 (title) On cant in dramatic criticism. 1826 Blackwood's Mag. 19 198/1 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. 1864 Round 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. 1864 Round Table 2 Jan. 43/3 Out of this mass of moral and physical corruption has come for years the greater portion of ‘Dramatic Criticism’ in New York. 1879 C. E. Pascoe Dram. Notes 29 That competent dramatic writer, Mr. Charles Reade. 1885 M. Collins Prettiest Woman in Warsaw I. viii. 131 He was continually..playing the part of the dramatic critic. 1946 Penguin Music Mag. Dec. 44 I heard a female, who called herself a dramatic soprano, screech and bawl. 1961 A. Berkman Singers' 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > spectacular, sensational, or dramatic display > [adjective] theatric1656 spectacular1682 theatrical1709 dramatic1726 sensationary1755 pyrotechnical1825 grandstand1835 pyrotechnic1848 sensational1859 razzle-dazzle1888 whizz-bang1919 glitzy1966 1726 A. Pope in tr. Homer Odyssey V. Postscr. 265 The whole structure of that work [Iliad] is Dramatick and full of action. a1777 S. Foote Trip to Calais (1778) iii. 90 There seems to be a kind of dramatic justice in the change of your two situations. 1855 G. Brimley Ess. (1858) i. 9 That dramatic unity demanded in works of art. 1878 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. (1883) I. 176 The destruction of a great and ancient institution is an eminently dramatic thing. B. n. †1. A dramatic poet; a dramatist. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > playwriting > [noun] > playwright playmaker1530 playmonger1593 playwright1605 playwritera1626 stage-wright1631 dramatica1657 factist1676 dramatist1678 dramaturgist1825 playwrightess1831 dramatizer1833 dramaturge1870 a1657 G. Daniel Poems (1878) I. 30 Hee was, of English Drammatickes, the Prince. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 164 No longer shall Dramatics be confin'd To draw true Images of all Mankind. 1742 T. Gray Let. 8 Apr. in Corr. (1971) I. 193 Put me the following lines into the tongue of our modern dramatics. 2. plural. Dramatic compositions or representations; the drama. Also transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [noun] sock and buskin1597 scene1616 drama1661 theatre1668 dramatics1684 dramaturgy1801 proscenium1812 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [noun] > dramatic performance scene1572 representation?1589 presentationa1616 scene work1642 dramatics1796 dramaticalc1826 dramaturgy1837 theatricalitya1871 stage-work1906 1684 W. Winstanley England's Worthies: Shakespeare 345–7 In all his writings hath an unvulgar Style, as well in his..Poems, as in his Drammaaticks. 1710 Ld. Shaftesbury Soliloquy 108 We read Epicks and Dramaticks as we do Satyrs and Lampoons. 1796 G. Colman Iron Chest Pref. p. xix They who are experienced in Dramaticks will, I trust, see that I have made a fair extenuation of myself. 1880 C. Keene Let. in G. S. Layard Life & Lett. C. S. Keene (1892) x. 308 The prevailing mania for dramatics. 1936 L. C. Douglas White Banners xvi. 338 There was no need to dramatize it..; the strange chronicle furnished its own dramatics. 1957 P. 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. Draft additions 1993 dramatic irony n. Theatre the incongruity created when the (tragic) significance of a character's speech or actions is revealed to the audience but unknown to the character concerned; the literary device so used, originally in Greek tragedy; also in extended use; cf. tragic irony n. at tragic adj. and n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > plot > parts of plot envoy1616 undermirth1640 counter-turn1651 under-walk1651 deus ex machina1697 happy ending1748 dénouement1752 anagnorisis1783 comic relief1783 by-play1812 tragic irony1833 by-plot1851 dramatic irony1881 plot point1909 cliff-hanging1945 subtext1960 1881 A. Sidgwick in Aeschylus Agamemnon 68 The Greek dramas are full of such double meanings, bearing only a single sense to the speaker; and the contrast between the two senses, or between the position of the speaker as he conceived it, and as it was known to the audience, often formed most effective situations, of Dramatic Irony, as it has been called. 1907 W. Raleigh Shakespeare Index 229/2 Irony, dramatic. 1926 H. W. Fowler Dict. 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. 1942 E. Partridge 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. 1978 P. Howard Weasel Words xxiv. 99 Producers of..pantomimes still use this sort of dramatic irony visually. 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