closet drama

It is a typical example of a Romantic closet drama.

For this reason, some of his works are regarded as closet dramas.

Closet drama continues to be written today, although it is no longer a very popular genre.

However, many closet dramas were written in Victorian times and afterward.

Closet dramas, however, are designed especially for reading and do not concern themselves with stage technique.

Cain is an example of the literary genre known as closet drama.

Shelley's play is closet drama, meaning it was not intended to be produced on the stage.

In that case, they are called closet dramas.

Popularly classified as closet drama, which means it has not had a major performance for centuries.

Sodom is an obscene Restoration closet drama, published in 1684.

At the universities, plays were staged in a more academic form as Roman closet dramas.

He is also the subject of a closet drama from the late 10th or early 11th century.

Nineteenth-century closet drama became a longer poetic form, without the connection to practical theatre and performance.

The play is a closet drama and many of its actions are told through the characters' speech rather than through stage directions.

Yet they were physically staged, at least in part, to rapturous acclaim, and are not merely closet dramas.

A piece of closet drama, "Dialogue" begins with the devil putting up handbills:

By the early 19th century, few English dramas were being written, except for closet drama, plays intended to be presented privately rather than on stage.

A hybrid between a play and an extended poem, Goethe's two-part "closet drama" is epic in scope.

Most of Part II is written as a dramatic dialogue in the tradition of closet drama.

An important trend from around 1800 was the closet drama: a verse drama intended to be read from the page, rather than performed.

Robertson Davies called closet drama "Dreariest of literature, most second hand and fusty of experience!"

With the London theatres closed by the Puritan regime, playwriting activity shifts to closet drama.

The first half of the 17th-century closet drama Cicilia and Clorinda was dedicated to her.

Mr. Noonan's films are sort of hyperrealist closet dramas.

The topics of the Closet Drama and Failed States exhibitions, in turn, are barely mentioned in the book.