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A list of drams, operas, pieces, parts, etc., which a company or a person has rehearsed and is prepared to perform.

A dramatic performance; as, a theatrical representation; a representation of Hamlet.

Renewed performance of, or interest in, something, as the drama and literature.

A part, or character, performed by an actor in a drama; hence, a part of function taken or assumed by any one; as, he has now taken the rôle of philanthropist. Title rôle, the part, or character, which gives the title to a play, as the part of Hamlet in the play of that name.

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An accompanied dramatic recitative, interspersed with passages of melody, or followed by a full aria. Rockstro.

al. All these situations communicate a scenical animation to the wild romance, if treated dramatically. De Quincey.

A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.

Suited or intended to excite temporarily great interest or emotion; melodramatic; emotional; as, sensational plays or novels; sensational preaching; sensational journalism; a sensational report.

A dramatic work, partly in dialogue and partly in song, of a kind popular in Germany in the latter part of the 18th century. It was often comic, had modern characters, and patterned its music on folk song with strictly subordinated accompaniment.

porary state or relation at a moment of action which excites interest, as of persons in a dramatic scene. There's situation for you! there's an heroic group! Sheridan.

actors of comedy in ancient Greece and Rome, -- used as a sumbol of comedy, of the comic drams, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the buskin. Great Fletcher never treads in buskin here, Nor greater Jonson dares in socks appear. Dryden.

ts on occasion of special exposure to wet or cold, or to severe fatigue; hence, to take a dram.

formances; hence, the theater; the playhouse; hence, also, the profession of representing dramatic compositions; the drama, as acted or exhibited. Knights, squires, and steeds, must enter on the stage. Pope. Lo! Where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. C. Sprague.…

A dramatic or theatrical entertainment. Dryden.

ied by, or making prominent, the individuality of a writer or an artist; as, a subjective drama or painting; a subjective writer.

to fill a tablespoon. It is usually reckoned as one half of a fluid ounce, or four fluid drams.

That in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram cup, a cheese taster, or the like.

As much as teaspoon will hold; enough to fill a teaspoon; -- usually reckoned at a fluid dram or one quarter of a tablespoonful.

A group or series of four dramatic pieces, three tragedies and one satyric, or comic, piece (or sometimes four tragedies), represented consequently on the Attic stage at the Dionysiac festival.