戏说剧

period costume drama (on TV)

variant of 戲|戏[xi4]

trick / drama / play / show / CL:齣|出[chu1],場|场[chang3],臺|台[tai2]

dramatic form consisting of historical narration / history as jocular narrative / to stretch history for a joking story / amusing story with strained interpretations of history / to make an unreasonable comparison in jest

to persuade

to speak / to say / to explain / to scold / to tell off / a theory (typically the last character in a compound, as in 日心說|日心说 heliocentric theory)

variant of 說|说[shuo1]

to speak; to talk; to say / to explain; to comment / to scold; to tell off / (bound form) theory; doctrine

theatrical work (play, opera, TV series etc) / dramatic (change, increase etc) / acute / severe