| Front | closet drama |
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| Back | Milton's Samson Agonists Walter Savage Landor's Count Julian Shelley 's Prometheus Unbound Arnold's Empedocles on Etna and Merope Swinburne's Locrine Hardy's the Dynasts A closet drama is a play that is not intended to be performed onstage, but read by a solitary reader or sometimes out loud in a small group. The contrast between closet drama and classic ‘stage’ dramas dates back to the late eighteenth century. Although non-performative in nature, closet drama is, according to Henry A. Beers, "a quite legitimate product of literary art."[1 |
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