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closet drama
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closet drama
n.
A play to be read rather than performed.
closet drama
n
(Performing Arts / Theatre) Chiefly US
a.  drama suitable for reading rather than performing
b.  a play of this kind
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Noun1.closet drama - drama more suitable for reading that for performing
drama - the literary genre of works intended for the theater
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In some ways, they had a liminality similar to the Interregnum closet dramas that Barbara Ravelhofer discusses in her essay "News Drama: The Tragic Subject of Charles I.
English Historical Drama, 1550-1660: Forms Outside the Canon by Budra, Paul / Renaissance Quarterly
But we now also have a whole array of scholarship on women's diaries, wills, poetic productions, closet dramas, and letters.
Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early ... by Howard, Jean E. / Shakespeare Studies
More broadly, Burbery effectively contrasts frequent and detailed textual cues for visualizing Samson Agonistes on stage to the sparsity of such elements in Elizabeth Cary's Mariam, Queen of Jewry and in other closet dramas by Fulke Greville, Samuel Daniel, William Alexander, George Buchanan, and even Byron and Shelley.
Milton the Dramatist by Bienz, John / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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