dramatic poet
Writes for stage
A dramatic poet is a writer who composes plays in verse—works meant for theatrical performance rather than private reading.
Shakespeare, Sophocles, and Racine are dramatic poets.
The term distinguishes playwrights working in poetic form from those writing prose drama and from poets working in lyric or narrative modes.
- ShakespeareElizabethan dramatist and poet
- tragic heroCharacter whose flaw causes ruin
- tragedyDisastrous or sorrowful event
- SophoclesClassical Athenian playwright
- Greek chorusMasked performers providing commentary
dialogue · comedy · meter · masque · Molière · monologue · Euripides · characterization · Aeschylus · soliloquy · imagery · Romanticism · stage directions · symbolism · Racine · conflict · rhyme scheme · playwright
literary form/genre
dramatic poetnovelist
Writer of prose narratives
prose writer · lyric poet · essayist · short story writer · fiction writer
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