In the whole range of drama there is scarcely a passage which one would call more specifically dramatic than the Screen Scene in The School for Scandal; yet it would be the veriest quibbling to argue that any appreciable part of its effect arises from the clash of will against will.

The scene was intensely dramatic to all but the singular man who had been battling to retain a fortune.

Further, though the story of Mary's life is essentially dramatic, and the incidents of her reign are tragic in the extreme, the poet does not seem to have extracted from either that which goes to the making of a great drama.

The form under which they appear, or the external character that marks them, is of three sorts: either purely dramatic, like the dialogue of tragedy or comedy; or purely narrative, where a former conversation is supposed to be committed to writing, and communicated to some absent friend; or of the mixed kind, like a narration in dramatic poems, where is recited, to some person present, the story of things past.

The fact that theatrical conditions often encourage a violent exaggeration of the characteristically dramatic elements in life does not make these elements any the less real or any the less characteristically dramatic.

As an autobiography, in the highest sense of that word, as the portraiture, that is, and record of what the man was, irrespective of those common accidents of humanity which too often load the biographer's pages, it is eminently dramatic.

His several plays have distinctly dramatic qualities and many passages of poetic beauty.

It was a performance unpleasantly suggestive and at the same time singularly dramatic.

We have merely room to mention, with warm approbation, the exceedingly dramatic little genre picture entitled "Shoo-fly," by the veteran Minstrel, Mr. DANIEL BRYANT, whose recent translation of HOMER has given him so high a rank among the best German scholars of the day.

Far from being a real exception to the rule that Shakespeare liked to open his tragedies with a very crisply dramatic episode, Othello may rather be called its most conspicuous example.

My concern is with the profoundly dramatic interest of his character, and with the inspiring example of a man who handled war nobly and with imagination.

But when he bemoans the loss of the friend of his youth, when he tells of his resolution to embrace an ascetic life, he is nervously animated, and is as psychologically dramatic as Balzac.

There was something rarely dramatic in all the surroundings of these last hours.

A real dramatic romance, here in the twentieth century.

The trial-scene was on so important a stage, was so richly dramatic, had actors of such dignity of character, and was so instinct with the national life, as "to deserve to be painted as much as the Surrender of Burgoyne."

The conception of dramatic art which was in men's minds at the time naturally and inevitably influenced the development of a form of poem which was daily becoming more sensibly dramatic.

The entrance of the servant at that moment, to announce Edwin Clayhanger, seemed to her startlingly dramatic.

This time I propose to consider Shakespeare from more than one point of viewfirst as a poet in general, then as compared with poets ancient and modern, and finally, as a strictly dramatic poet.

Here we have, I repeat, a typically dramatic theme: a great crisis, bringing out vivid manifestations of character, not only in the bankrupt himself, but in those around him, and naturally unfolding itself through a series of those lesser crises, which we call interesting and moving scenes.

This external collision is, however, far from supplying the chief interest in a drama unquestionably dramatic, although its main action is internal.

I must tell the truth, and then, if he would not have memeAmbrosine de Calincourt Athelstan!why, then, vulgarly dramatic or no, I should have to jump into the river to make things easy for grandmamma.

Here the group at the foot of the cross is wonderfully dramatic and expressive, but certainly the reverse of dignified.

To the reader this may sound ridiculous, but listened to under the circumstances, it was highly and effectively dramatic.

And lastly, it was this more elaborately dramatic quality that was responsible for the far greater influence exercised by Guarini than by Tasso, both on the subsequent drama of Italy and still more on the fortunes of the pastoral in England.

Here on the night of the 26th there occurred a scene wonderfully, almost incredibly, dramatic.