Of his last three works, " Thomaso " is a broad comedy based on Killigrew's experiences in European exile, while " Bellamira " and " Cicillia " are heroic romances but all three are closet dramas, ten-act double plays never intended for the stage.
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Alan Richardson, for example, argues that the play is " lyrical drama " or " mental theater " in the style of Romantic closet drama " with its emphasis on character over plot, on reaction over action, and its turn away from the theater ".
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Although many of Dunsany's stage plays were successfully produced within his lifetime, he also wrote a number of " chamber plays " ( or closet dramas ), which were intended only to be read privately ( as if they were stories ) or performed on the radio, rather than staged.
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There are no recorded full stagings in Britain in the twentieth century, but readings are more popular, partly because of the difficulty of staging a play set in the Alps, partly because of the work's nature as a closet drama that was never actually intended for the stage in the first place.
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Most concur that it was never meant for performance, agreeing with Romanticist Alan Richardson that the play is " lyrical drama " or " mental theater " in the style of Romantic closet drama " with its emphasis on character over plot, on reaction over action, and its turn away from the theater ".
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The influence of her " Antonius " is widely recognized : it stimulated a revived interest in the soliloquy based on classical models, and was a likely source ( among others ) for both the 1594 closet drama " Cleopatra " by Samuel Daniel and Shakespeare s " Antony and Cleopatra " ( 1607 ).
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Magid responded strongly to " the symbolic gesture of six shots into the sky, the fateful setting, the silence that refuses to ground [ Fausto ] in political rhetoric or personal instability . " Goethe's epic was originally written as a " closet drama, " " a play to be read rather than performed ".
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Finally, in his article " Production's'dubious advantage': Lesescenarios, closet drama, and the ( screen ) writer's riposte, " Quimby Melton outlines the history of the Lesescenario form, situates the genre in a historical literary context by drawing parallels between it and Western " closet drama, " and argues we might consider certain instances of closet drama proto-screenplays.
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Finally, in his article " Production's'dubious advantage': Lesescenarios, closet drama, and the ( screen ) writer's riposte, " Quimby Melton outlines the history of the Lesescenario form, situates the genre in a historical literary context by drawing parallels between it and Western " closet drama, " and argues we might consider certain instances of closet drama proto-screenplays.
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It is the finest thing he ever wrote, and may claim proud comparison not only with any contemporary, but preceding, poet . " She noted that " Shelley wished " The Cenci " to be acted ", intending the work, which she wrote was of " surpassing excellence ", to be an acting play, not a " closet drama ".
