historical drama

collocation in English

meaningsofhistoricalanddrama

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historical
adjective
uk
/hɪˈstɒr.ɪ.kəl/us
/hɪˈstɔːr.ɪ.kəl/
connected with studying or representing things from ...
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drama
noun
uk
/ˈdrɑː.mə/us
/ˈdræm.ə/
a play in a theatre or on television or radio, or plays and ...
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(Definition ofhistoricalanddramafrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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His appearance on stage is brief, and serves only to place the local drama of the main characters within a widerhistoricaldrama.
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He is more prolific inhistoricaldramaand comedy.
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Another musalsal genre is that of thehistoricaldrama.
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The play is a political satire, written ashistoricaldrama.
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This decree resulted in cancellation of a number of planned films withhistoricaldramaplots.
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Of the twenty-some plays, including many verse works, most are in thehistoricaldramagenre.
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There is little to distinguish it visually from a made-for-cablehistoricaldrama.
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So far, for me this is eitherhistoricaldramaor documentary fantasy.
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He also returned to writinghistoricaldrama, the genre with which he had begun his playwriting career.
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The film has several extended swash buckling fight scenes, with martial arts performances by the cast mixed in, making it unusual for ahistoricaldrama.
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