closet drama
Americannoun
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drama appropriate for reading rather than for acting.
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a play in this form.
noun
Example Sentences
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The vampirically needy Michael, the snobbish and pompous Ralph and the increasingly fanatical Hilda might have stepped out of a Strindberg closet drama — three studies in mutually inflicted torture.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2021
Like so many Golden Age mysteries, the original novel is essentially a closet drama, one that closely observes the theatrical unities of place, time and action.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2017
This is a closet drama, but the closet has a window with a view of the sea.
From Time Magazine Archive
The son of a practical playwright of fame and success, he has made himself into a worshipper of closet drama, of dancing figures in cheesecloth, of symbolism and of dialect.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unless, indeed, he renounces from the outset all thought of the stage and chooses to produce that cumbrous nondescript, a "closet drama."
From Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship by Archer, William
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