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
Only one piece is downright bad: Tennessee Williams' tasteless closet drama about D. H. Lawrence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of these various classes of closet drama influenced the acted drama, others have so little dramatic quality that they are at most "dramatic poems," but all have a connection with the tradition of tragedy.
From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.
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