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dramatic art

n. the art of writing and producing plays [syn: dramaturgy, dramatics, theater, theatre]

Usage examples of "dramatic art".

In such feeble tendencies, be it known, such outworking of desire to reproduce life, lies the basis of all dramatic art.

After studying literature and dramatic art, Margery divided her time between London and a home at Tolleshunt d'Arcy on the Essex coast where she produced a series of crime and mystery novels that were full of drama and excitement and quite evidently inspired by the world she knew so intimately.

This verisimilitude may be dramatic art backed {70} up by knowledge of public life.

If this was the wave of the future in dramatic art, they liked it.

If she has talent, the thing comes of itself and she need only go to a school of Dramatic Art so that she could more easily get a good Theatre says Ada.

It was said in the perfectly modulated tones and classless accents of a BBC announcer or a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Whatever the exact nature of the program that night, it fulfilled the highest purposes of dramatic art, so far, at least, as four of the audience were concerned.

Kabuki was the essence of dramatic art: The acting was highly stylized, all emotions exaggerated.