Related to closet drama, a "'closet screenplay "'is a screenplay intended not to be produced / performed but instead to be read by a solitary reader or, sometimes, out loud in a small group.
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A closet drama, by contrast, refers to a play written to be read rather than to be performed; hence, it is intended that the meaning of such a work can be realized fully on the page.
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The insecurities and turbulent desires of adolescence have rarely been portrayed more faithfully on screen than in " Edge of 17, " the latest and most poignant in a recent spate of teen-age male coming-out-of-the-closet dramas.
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Thomas Killigrew is an example of a stage playwright who turned to closet drama when his plays could no longer be produced during this period; he was in exile from England during the English Civil War.
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(" Pathomachia " strongly resembles closet drama, and many critics would probably classify it as such; though if it was acted on stage as " Love's Lodestone " it would not qualify as a literal instance of closet drama .)
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(" Pathomachia " strongly resembles closet drama, and many critics would probably classify it as such; though if it was acted on stage as " Love's Lodestone " it would not qualify as a literal instance of closet drama .)
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This kind of thinking contributes to the creation of closet drama that can be seen as " a refusal to bow to the realities of theaters and actors, in the name of a freedom which is self-pampering and illusory ."
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The closet drama was written partly by Coleridge, the first act, and partly by Southey, the second and third, and it describes the events of Robespierre's final moments and his execution and that of 21 of his supporters along with denouncing tyranny.
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Towards the end of the century there were " closet dramas ", primarily designed to be read, rather than performed, including work by Scott, Hogg, Galt and Joanna Baillie ( 1762 1851 ), often influenced by the ballad tradition and Gothic Romanticism.
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Ayton was one of the first Scottish poets to have written explicitly in English, while Alexander wrote rhymed tragedies in a genre sometimes referred to as " closet drama " and assisted the King in his metrical translations of the Psalms of David.
