closet drama

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

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

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

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

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