The other main source for the play is George Whetstone's 1578 lengthy two-part closet drama " Promos and Cassandra ", which itself is sourced from Cinthio.
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Ponsonby printed none of the plays of 1623 . ) Ponsonby made occasional exceptions for closet drama, as with the Countess of Pembroke's " Antony " noted above.
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A marked departure from his previous book, the popular " Portnoy's Complaint ", " Our Gang " is a political satire written in the form of a closet drama.
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In another way, what happened on the stage was seen as unimportant, as the Romantics, themselves writers of closet drama, considered Shakespeare altogether more suitable for reading than staging.
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The popularity of closet drama at this time was both a sign of, and a reaction to, the decline of the verse tragedy on the European stage in the 1800s.
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According to Robertson Davies in " A Voice From the Attic ", closet drama is " " Dreariest of literature, most second hand and fusty of experience ! " ".
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The work, a closet drama, depicts an unnamed pope falling asleep, and having a dream in which he participates in a pageant of scenes which represent generic situations in human history.
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The period of the Civil War and the Interregnum, when the public theaters were officially closed ( 1642 & ndash; 60 ), was perhaps the golden age of closet drama in English.
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Robertson Davies called closet drama " Dreariest of literature, most second hand and fusty of experience ! " Closet drama continues to be written today, although it is no longer a very popular genre.
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Robertson Davies called closet drama " Dreariest of literature, most second hand and fusty of experience ! " Closet drama continues to be written today, although it is no longer a very popular genre.
