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monodrama|ˈmɒnəʊdrɑːmə, mɒnəʊˈdrɑːmə|
Also 9 monodram(e.
[f. mono- + drama.]
A dramatic piece for a single performer. Now esp. an opera for one singer.
1793Southey Let. to G. C. Bedford 26 Oct. in Life (1849) I. 185 Monodramas, comodramas, tragodramas, all sorts of dramas. 1803in Spirit Publ. Jrnls. (1804) VII. 170 He [an actor] is assisting to get up the Monodram, in which he takes a principal part. 1823Edin. Rev. XXXVIII. 183 The first attempt at dramatic writing would naturally be in the form of a monodrame. 1829Examiner 275/2 The puns and drollery of Mathews in his new mono-drama At Home. 1849Eclectic Rev. XXVI. 211 The entire sum of his [Browning's] poetry may be said to be dramatic, though much of it..simple monodrama. 1904Athenæum 18 June 776/1 Tennyson intended ‘Maud’ to be a pure monodrama, yet it was taken for a portrait of himself. 1954Grove's Dict. Mus. (ed. 5) V. 666/2 The title part of Berlioz's ‘Lélio’.., in which a single actor appears, may also be called a ‘monodrama’. Ibid., A work like Schoenberg's ‘Erwartung’, in which a single acting singer appears, is also in the nature of ‘monodrama’. 1966Listener 19 May 736/3 Erwartung,..a monodrama or ‘prose opera’ (Stravinsky)... This fragmentary half-hour composition..is scored for soprano (no supporting cast) and large orchestra. 1974New Yorker 29 Apr. 129/1 An extravagant monodrama for singer, pianist, and orchestra.
fig.1824New Monthly Mag. X. 41 Friendship is with them a mono-drama, in which they play the principal and sole part.
Hence ˌmonodraˈmatic a., pertaining to or characteristic of a monodrama; monoˈdramatist, one who writes a monodrama.
1801Monthly Mirror Aug. 136 A German..has lately appeared on this stage, in an Italian mono-dramatic interlude, called Il Cazolaro. 1803in Spirit Publ. Jrnls. (1805) VIII. 178 Hint to a Mono-dramatist, how to avoid damnation. 1825Blackw. Mag. XVII. 731 These great performers..have retired into a dignified and limited range of mono-dramatic parts. 1897Tennyson Mem. Tennyson I. 402 ‘Maud’ and other monodramatic poems. |