write a short essay on historical drama
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Historical plays are dramas having for their subject historical events, and for their dramatis persona real men who have made their names famous in history.
The writer of such dramas labours under a disadvantage, inasmuch as he has to confine himself more or less closely to the facts of history, and cannot use his imagination freely in the construction of an interesting plot.
But, on the other hand, it is a great advantage that he places upon the stage men and women who have really done What they are represented as doing, so that the audience are not tempted to condemn what they see on the stage as impossible and unnatural. The spectators in theatres are also naturally more interested in real than in fictitious characters.
The noblest examples of historical plays are those of Shakespeare, who wrote three plays on Roman historical subjects and in a long series of dramas illustrated the course of English history from the reign of John to the birth of Elizabeth is difficult to realize how great a service he did to his native land by writing these plays.