Heroic drama
![John Dryden, who formulated and wrote the heroic drama in the 1670s.](/Images/godic/202501/17/J-Dryden4625.jpg")
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 subgenre 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.