Heroic drama is a type of play popular during the Restoration era in England, distinguished by both its verse structure and its subject matter. The sub-genre of heroic drama evolved through several works of the middle to later 1660s; John Dryden's The Indian Emperour (1665) and Roger Boyle's The Black Prince (1667) were key developments.
Read more about Heroic Drama: Dryden in 1670, Other Dramatists, Heroic Drama in Literary Criticism, Satirical Response
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