What are the types of dramatic poetry?
The problem with a question such as this, is that there is no agreed answer to it. There is nothing to stop your teacher – or your local education board – coming up with a pet theory of ‘types of dramatic poetry’ and expecting you to learn it: even though the list has no more validity than answersingenesis. That said: plays are certainly a type of dramatic poetry, and so are dramatic monologues (such as The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God, or Albert and the Lion). Any Colloquy (such as Fintan and the Hawk) is also a form of dramatic poetry, and Robert Browning’s dramatic monologues are different from music hall dramatic monologues (Browning’s monologues are not always narrative), so they should be considered a different form. Battle rap is a modern form of a very old form of improvised dramatic poetry (it used to be called dozening) which goes back at least as far as classical Irish poetry (see James Stephens’ constructive mistranslation of a late Irish classic). And properly speaki
