serious drama

collocation in English

meaningsofseriousanddrama

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serious
adjective
uk
/ˈsɪə.ri.əs/us
/ˈsɪr.i.əs/
severe in ...
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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 ofseriousanddramafrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The notion of accident was banished fromseriousdrama, finding a place only in comedy.
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The commonplace subjects and plots of seventeenth-centuryseriousdrama(opera included) are such as to make application virtually impossible to avoid.
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This comic structure supporting an apparentlyseriousdrama, which accorded so well with the spirit of the eighteenth century, had its origins already in sixteenthcentury spoken drama.
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He works in bothseriousdramaand comedy, and has often played police detectives.
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She provided entertainment in the form of minstrel shows, vaudeville, andseriousdrama.
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Over time, it has evolved to include comedy,seriousdrama, character pieces and melodrama.
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His career has included diverse roles fromseriousdramato character comedy.
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By the start of the 20th century moreseriousdramawas being staged.
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His subjects ranged from serious to romantic comedy to moreseriousdramaand less humor.
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This entertainment form became known as "sarugaku" and initially encompassed bothseriousdramaand comedy.
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This cinematic triumph brought her before the public eye and launched herseriousdramacareer.
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In a turnabout from thisseriousdrama, they followed with three musical comedies, all based on once-popular stage plays.
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The tone of the film is that of aseriousdrama, despite the seemingly parodic subject material.
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Other theatres were prohibited from performing suchseriousdrama, but were permitted to show comedy, pantomime or melodrama.
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His stage work has varied from pantomime toseriousdrama, as well as radio plays, voiceovers, commercials, narrations, and films.
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The theatre was a minor theatre (as opposed to one of the two patent theatres) and was thus technically forbidden to showseriousdrama.
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In the 1660s women were permitted to appear on stage and male actors playing female roles inseriousdramawas strongly discouraged.
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This telenovela has characteristics of a nightmare, dystopia, and science fiction, being drastically different from standard telenovelas, at least approachingseriousdrama.
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He acted in more than 100 films in roles covering a wide range of genres, from light comedy toseriousdrama.
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Originally his character was an aspiring dramatic actor who held his parents' comedy style in befuddled contempt and deemed it unsuitable to theseriousdramastudent.
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