Crossword-Solution: MONODRAMA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Monodrama | n. | Alt. of Monodrame |
We have 2 clues for the answer “MONODRAMA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| DRAMA requiring one actor | 1 answer |
| Beckett's "Krapp's Last Tape," e.g. | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MONODRAMA (5)
With regard to the monodrama, or duodrama, a voice part is by no means necessary, as not a single note is sung, but entirely spoken; in short, it is a recitative with instruments, only the actor speaks the words instead of singing them.
And then, I have in my head to associate with the version, a monodrama of my own,--not a long poem, but a monologue of Æschylus as he sate a blind exile on the flats of Sicily and recounted the past to his own soul, just before the eagle cracked his great massy skull with a stone.
The characteristic and impassioned Epistle, of which Ovid and Pope have given examples, considered as a species of monodrama, may, without impropriety, be placed in this class.
Professor Dowden in his recent life of Browning, in endeavoring to explain the peculiarities of Browning's plays, makes an important point, which is still more applicable to the dramatic form which he calls "the short monodrama," but which I call the monologue.
Many a touching monodrama did he begin with an O and an Ah, besighing his past madness: "Ah, Meta," said he to himself, "why did I not know thee sooner! Thou hadst been my guardian angel, thou hadst saved me from destruction.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2010).