<P> George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and others satirized heroic drama in The Rehearsal . The satire was successful enough that heroic drama largely disappeared afterward . Buckingham attacked the stupidity of blustering, military heroes, as well as the apparent self - importance of attempting a dramatic entertainment about the serious subjects of military and national history . </P> <P> Buckingham's criticism of Dryden in The Rehearsal is partly Dryden's bombastic verse but, more pointedly, Dryden's personal interest in creating a "pure" drama . The character of Bayes is ludicrous more for his hubris in damning actual plays in favor of imagined ones than he is for being a poetaster . </P>

Who originated the genre of heroic tragedy and when