closet drama

How to use closet drama in a sentence

• Recent poetry manifests the same tendency, and likewise the drama, particularly the closet drama and the playlet.

  The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction | Dorothy Scarborough

• This is so obviously a closet-drama that it is difficult to imagine how it would look under the illumination of the foot-lights.

  Essays on Scandinavian Literature | Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

• The greatest artistry was expressing itself in poetry, and in America no major poet but Longfellow attempted even closet drama.

  A History of American Literature | Percy H. Boynton

• The familiar phrase "closet-drama" is a contradiction of terms.

  The Theory of the Theatre | Clayton Hamilton

• It is a clear and able study, not of the closet-drama, but of the actual stage play.

  The Riverside Bulletin, March, 1910 | Anonymous