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	Verse drama and dramatic verse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Verse drama is any drama written as verse to be spoken; another possible general term is poetic drama.
		Verse drama is particularly associated with the seriousness of tragedy, providing an artistic reason to write in this form, as well as the practical one that verse lines are easier for the actors to memorise exactly.
		That is, while poets of the eighteenth century could write poetic dramas sincerely, the public taste for new examples was already moving away by the start of the nineteenth century, and there was little commercial appeal in staging them.
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	"Rhetoric" and Poetic Drama. Eliot, T. S. 1920. The Sacred Wood
		Examination of the development of Elizabethan drama shows this progress in adaptation, a development from monotony to variety, a progressive refinement in the perception of the variations of feeling, and a progressive elaboration of the means of expressing these variations.
		This drama is admitted to have grown away from the rhetorical expression, the bombast speeches, of Kyd and Marlowe to the subtle and dispersed utterance of Shakespeare and Webster.
		In sentimental drama it appears in a degraded form, when we are evidently intended to accept the character's sentimental interpretation of himself.
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	Algernon Charles Swinburne
		(1865), a poetic drama modeled on Greek tragedy, brought him fame.
		The poems in this volume were savagely attacked for their sensuality and anti-Christian sentiments, but almost as excessively praised in other quarters for their technical facility and infusion of new energy into Victorian poetry.
		Although many of his lyrics are weakened by verbosity and excessive use of stylistic devices, these flaws do not obscure the vigor and music in such pieces as the choruses from
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