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Curiously, he devotes quite a bit of time to nondramatic prose fiction, including “Texts for Nothing,” “Watt” and “The Unnamable,” the final novel in Beckett’s masterpiece trilogy.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2019

It was a very nondramatic way of saying “I’m not going to feed you anymore.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 25, 2017

Richard Maxwell, an exemplar of nondramatic theater, typically directs his own work and composes the music, too.

From New York Times • Apr. 13, 2017

The story’s facile connections between France’s sordid politics and its sordid crimes, however, are less convincing than its other, nondramatic documentary elements.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 3, 2016

Other Poems.—The two narrative poems and the sonnets make up most of Shakespeare's nondramatic poetry.

From An Introduction to Shakespeare by MacCracken, H. N.