| 单词 | closet drama |
| 释义 | > as lemmascloset drama b. With the sense ‘of or relating to the writing of plays intended to be read rather than performed; (also) designating such a play’, as closet drama, closet play, etc. ΚΠ 1813 La Belle Assemblée Jan. 368/1 No tricks, no rant, no fighting, not even a solitary song! it will be called a mere closet play, quite a hum drum. 1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 448/1 There exists no living dramatic genius, as yet displayed, notwithstanding the late publication of many exquisite closet-dramas. 1833 Court Mag. Dec. 230/1 Professor Silliman..wrote closet tragedies and lackadaisical sonnets ‘to his mistress' eyebrow’. 1872 Scribner's Monthly Aug. 510/2 The second book [by Mr. Longfellow] is a closet drama, entitled ‘Judas Maccabaeus’. 1898 Sewanee Rev. 6 14 Closet-dramatists like Lycophron, study poets like Apollonius Rhodius, are the typical products of the day. 1907 N. Amer. Rev. 16 Aug. 880 He seems to sense his themes as narrative, instead of drama; and he writes in closet-verse, instead of theatre-verse. 1991 Tulsa Stud. Women's Lit. 10 233 Cary's transformation of the genre of closet drama..demonstrates that Mariam is more than slavish imitation. 2013 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 6 June 40 Why has this extraordinary play never been performed by a major professional theatre company, and does it really deserve to be labelled a ‘closet’ play? < as lemmas |
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