Back المسرح الذهني Arabic Lesedrama German Legdramo Esperanto Drama de armario Spanish نمایشنامه غیرصحنهای Persian Closet drama Italian レーゼドラマ Japanese ಓದುನಾಟಕಗಳು Kannada 레제 드라마 Korean Leesdrama Dutch
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A closet drama is a play that is not intended to be performed onstage, but read by a solitary reader. The earliest use of the term recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary is in 1813.[1] The literary historian Henry A. Beers in 1907 considered closet drama "a quite legitimate product of literary art."[2]
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. “closet (n. & adj.), sense C.3.b,” consulted 27 December 2024, https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/3572873642.
- ^ Beers, Henry (1907). "Retrospects of the Drama". The North American Review. 185 (619): 623–634. JSTOR 25105939.