A docudrama is a dramatization of actual historical events. As a neologism, the term is often confused with docufiction.
Docudramas tend to demonstrate some or most of the following characteristics:
Docudramas, then, are distinct both from the main line of historical fiction, in which the historical setting is a mere backdrop for a plot that are be set in many periods,
The impulse to incorporate historical material into literary texts has been an...
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A docudrama is a dramatization of actual historical events. As a neologism, the term is often confused with docufiction.
Docudramas tend to demonstrate some or most of the following characteristics:
Docudramas, then, are distinct both from the main line of historical fiction, in which the historical setting is a mere backdrop for a plot that are be set in many periods,
The impulse to incorporate historical material into literary texts has been an intermittent feature of literature in the west since its earliest days. Aristotle's theory of art is based on the use of putatively historical events and characters. Especially after the development of modern mass-produced literature, there have been genres that relied on history or then-current events for material. English Renaissance drama, for example, developed sub-genres specifically devoted to dramatizing recent murders and notorious cases of witchcraft.
However, docudrama as a separate category belongs to the second half of the...
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