| 单词 | verse drama | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasverse drama  C2.   In the sense ‘composed or written in, consisting of, verse’, as  verse drama,  verse epistle,  verse epitaph,  verse-exercise,  verse letter,  verse miscellany,  verse narrative,  verse-part,  verse play,  verse-tale,  verse-text,  verse translation, etc. ΚΠ 1685    J. Dryden Sylvæ Pref. sig. A2  				The hot [prose], (which succeeded them) in this Volume of Verse Miscellanies. 1687    J. Norris Coll. Misc. 		(1699)	 4  				Thus much for the Verse-part. 1817    S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 23  				In verse or prose, or in verse-text aided by prose-comment. 1881    Encycl. Brit. XII. 19/1  				Verse narrative, even when it deals with true events,..is either more or less than history. 1896    R. Palmer Fam. & Pers. Mem. I.  i. viii. 122  				He..gained both the University prizes for verse-exercises. 1925    R. Graves Welchman's Hose 31  				Then the first draft of a verse-epitaph. 1931    Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Nov. 850/2  				It might be inferred certainly from the verse-epistles [of Burns] alone: not quite so certainly from the prose letters alone. 1952    T. S. Eliot  & G. Hoellering Film of Murder in Cathedral 7  				Murder in the Cathedral is, I believe, the first contemporary verse play to be adapted to the screen. 1962    Times 14 Aug. 11/1  				Jean Cocteau's verse-drama Renaud et Armide. 1963    M. H. Abrams in  N. Frye Romanticism Reconsidered 37  				In a verse-letter of 1800 Blane identified the crucial influences in his spiritual history as a series beginning with Milton. < as lemmas | 
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