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Meaning of "closet drama" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CLOSET DRAMA

closet drama play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CLOSET DRAMA

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Closet drama is a noun.
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WHAT DOES CLOSET DRAMA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Closet drama

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. A related form, the "closet screenplay," developed during the 20th century.

Definition of closet drama in the English dictionary

The definition of closet drama in the dictionary is drama suitable for reading rather than performing. Other definition of closet drama is a play of this kind.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CLOSET DRAMA

closed game
closed interval
closed primary
closed scholarship
closed season
closed sentence
closed set
closed shop
closed source
closed-captioned
closed-circuit television
closed-circuit television camera
closed-door
closed-end trust
closely
closeness
closer
closet
closet queen
closetful

WORDS THAT END LIKE CLOSET DRAMA

ashrama
asrama
choreodrama
Cinerama
cosmorama
costume drama
cyclorama
diorama
docudrama
drama
grama
hospital drama
kitchen-sink drama
melodrama
monodrama
music drama
panorama
period drama
psychodrama
tarama

Synonyms and antonyms of closet drama in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «closet drama» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CLOSET DRAMA

Find out the translation of closet drama to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of closet drama from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «closet drama» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

衣柜剧
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

drama de armario
570 millions of speakers

English

closet drama
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कोठरी नाटक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الدراما خزانة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

шкаф драма
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

drama de armário
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পায়খানা নাটক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

placard drame
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Drama almari
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Lesedrama
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

クローゼットのドラマ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

옷장 드라마
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Drama kamar mandi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phim tủ quần áo
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மறைவை நாடகம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लहान खोली नाटक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Klozet tiyatrosu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

closet drama
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

szafa dramat
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

шафа драма
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

dramă dulap
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ντουλάπα δράμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kas drama
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

closet drama
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

closet drama
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of closet drama

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CLOSET DRAMA»

The term «closet drama» is used very little and occupies the 168.243 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CLOSET DRAMA» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about closet drama

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CLOSET DRAMA»

Discover the use of closet drama in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to closet drama and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Privacy, Playreading, and Women's Closet Drama, 1550-1700
In her astute readings of the texts, their contexts and their physical appearance in print or manuscript, Straznicky has produced many fresh insights into the place of women's closet plays both in the history of women's writing and in the ...
Marta Straznicky, 2004
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Dramatic Difference: Gender, Class, and Genre in the Early ...
The book situates women writers' work in the context of their male peers' use of the genre and looks at how the genre's social and political orientation changed from the late sixteenth century through the Restoration.
Karen Raber, 2001
3
Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama
While the avant-garde celebrated all things theatrical, a dominant strain of modernism tended to define itself against the theater, valuing lyric poetry and the novel instead.
Martin Puchner, 2003
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The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama
CLOSET DRAMA 271 scenes of violent passion and extreme profanity, but Marber tempers this fury with a plot structure that is intentionally contrived. The first meeting and last farewell of each pair of lovers are contained within the action of the ...
Gabrielle H. Cody, Evert Sprinchorn, 2007
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Poems: Brief Intervals: ROBB: A Gnostical Closet Drama in ...
"The present work combines two different forms but of similar content: a poetic form and a dramatic form noted as "closet" drama because intended for reading rather than a staged production.
Bernard X. Bovasso, 2010
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Closet Performances: Political Exhibition and Prohibition in ...
. . . The scholarship and the critical perspicuity of Closet Performances make this book one of the best on its topic and one that is likely to be valuable as a resource and as a locus for contention for a long time to come.
Michael Simpson, 1998
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Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
Privacy, Playreading and Early Modern Women's Closet Drama, by Marta Straznicky. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xii + 182. Cloth $75.00. Reviewer: Alison Findlay The title of Marta Straznicky' s book is wittily deceptive: ...
S. P. Cerasano, Heather Anne Hirschfeld, 2006
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Nurses Making Caring Work: A Closet Drama
The researcher concludes that there is a need for lens that would better enable nurses to examine the effects of contextual influences on nursing and nurses; to recognize the effects and opportunities related to changing worldviews.
Joan Lee Boyce, 2007
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A Companion to Renaissance Drama
Defined by most critics as a play that was either never intended for performance or never performed, closet drama has predictably been marginalized by generations of critics who, however varied their theoretical positions or scholarly interests, ...
Arthur F. Kinney, 2008
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Gender, Genre, and the Romantic Poets: An Introduction
5 Lord Byron Manfred and the closet drama I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting. (Byron, 1814)1 But dearly do we pay all our life after for this juvenile pleasure, this sense of distinctness. When the novelty ...
Philip Cox, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CLOSET DRAMA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term closet drama is used in the context of the following news items.
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50 SHADES OF GRAY AREA
Neil La Bute is the master of closet drama. Dirty Weekend works up role reversals and character assassinations between two starcrossed office ... «NY Arts Magazine, May 15»
2
Not your typical Samson and Delilah
Handel based his work on Samson Agonistes, the great English poet John Milton's closet drama (a drama that really wasn't meant to be staged, ... «Commons, May 15»
3
Chekhov Checklist: The Topsy-Turvy 'Vanya and Sonia and Masha …
John O'Neill also reveals unexpected depths to Vanya, a closeted playwright who has written a curiously apocalyptic closet drama. «San Antonio Current, May 15»
4
The Postal Service: Everything Will Change
Give Up seemed to me a closet drama of an album: a document, not a performance piece. So I, of all people, understand if you're a fan of Give ... «PopMatters, Nov 14»
5
Rethinking the Artist's Book: Print Text Language
Print Text Language, presents “The Deed,” next to “Fiction,” another work from Jill Magid's 2011 exhibit Closet Drama, at the Berkeley Art ... «Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun, Oct 14»
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Upcoming: Alt-J, BuzzFest 32, Deep Cuts, Jungle, the Pretty …
... 8 p.m., $10 to $12. Fitzgerald's, 2706 White Oak, Houston, 713-862-3838. Hoofprints: With Closet Drama, Far Out. Fri., August 29, 9 p.m., $7. «Houston Press, Aug 14»
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Gaming wizard behindThe Elder ScrollsKen Rolston advises (and …
... fail anyway," he says, adding that he likes the "closet drama" concept in which you develop an idea that you know may never be published. «Upstart, Apr 14»
8
Kam On Film: 'Shirin In Love,' 'The Single Moms Club' and What's …
McCanick (R for profanity, graphic violence and brief drug use) David Morse stars in the title role of this out-of-the-closet drama chronicling an ... «Aquarian Weekly, Mar 14»
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Theater review: Dobama's 'Made in America' interesting, unpolished …
Don Bianchi, the founding artistic director, cast plays without tryouts, staged a closet drama -- a script intended to be read, but not staged ... «News-Herald.com, Mar 14»
10
Making Lincoln Sexy: Jerome Charyns Fictional President
Instead, we have a closet drama surrounding the Thirteenth Amendment, with most of the sound and fury inside the House of Representatives. «Daily Beast, Mar 14»

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