closet drama

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closet drama

A play to be read rather than performed.

closet drama

(Theatre) chiefly

a. drama suitable for reading rather than performing

b. a play of this kind

clos′et dra`ma

1. drama appropriate for reading rather than for acting.

2. a play in this form.

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closet drama - drama more suitable for reading that for performing

drama - the literary genre of works intended for the theater

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She carefully analyzes the play's typographic arrangement, observing that it was particularly designed for readers and claiming that publication of a closet play could be a way of "specifying rather than renouncing its position within the public sphere" (52-53).

Marta Straznicky. Privacy, Playreading, and Women's Closet Drama, 1550-1700

It is fair to say that if early modern women had not written closet plays, the resurgence of critical interest in the genre over the past twenty years would not have occurred.

Karen Raber. Dramatic Difference: Gender, Class, and Genre in the Early Modern Closet Drama

Days of Awe is an impressive, almost magical-realistic exploration of Cuban culture, the meaning of exile, and the many roles the closet plays in the history of human identity.