Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to a monodrama.
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- adjective Pertaining to a monodrama.
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- adjective Relating to a
monodrama .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He planned, Mr Gosse tells us, “a series of monodramatic epics, narratives of the life of typical souls.”
Robert Browning Dowden, Edward 1904
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In another sense, the major portion of Browning's life-work is, collectively, one monodramatic “epic.”
Life of Robert Browning Sharp, William, 1855-1905 1897
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The story fascinated Browning, who, having in this book and elsewhere mastered all the details, conceived the idea of writing the history of the crime in a series of monodramatic revelations on the part of the individuals more or less directly concerned.
Life of Robert Browning Sharp, William, 1855-1905 1897
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In a sense he has fulfilled this early dream: at any rate we have a unique series of monodramatic poems, illustrative of typical souls.
Life of Robert Browning Sharp, William, 1855-1905 1897
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In another sense, the major portion of Browning's life-work is, collectively, one monodramatic
Life of Robert Browning William Sharp 1880
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In a sense he has fulfilled this early dream: at any rate we have a unique series of monodramatic poems, illustrative of typical souls.
Life of Robert Browning William Sharp 1880
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From this source, and from what the poet himself said at various times and in various ways, we know that just about the time Balzac, after years of apparently waste labour, was beginning to forecast the Titanic range of the _Comédie Humaine_, Browning planned "a series of monodramatic epics, narratives of the life of typical souls -- a gigantic scheme at which a Victor Hugo or a Lope de Vega would start back aghast."
Life of Robert Browning William Sharp 1880
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The story fascinated Browning, who, having in this book and elsewhere mastered all the details, conceived the idea of writing the history of the crime in a series of monodramatic revelations on the part of the individuals more or less directly concerned.
Life of Robert Browning William Sharp 1880
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Many of these were first given at Dibdin's monodramatic entertainments at the Sans Souci Theatre in London, or as parts of his musical dramas.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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