Dramatic forms defined by how they are written and read rather than staged in the usual way, such as closet drama and closet screenplay meant for a solitary reader and verse drama written significantly in verse. A genre belongs here when its cited article ties it to reading rather than performance or to verse as the language of the play. The group sits within the Dramatic Genres subcategory of the genre roster and gathers the genres of this kind that the atlas already records, so that a reader can browse related genres together and compare how each one is defined.
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Closet Drama (Wikipedia)
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A closet drama is a play that is not intended to be performed onstage, but read by a solitary reader.
Wikipedia: Closet screenplay
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Related to closet drama, a closet screenplay is a screenplay intended not to be produced/performed but instead to be read by a solitary reader or, sometimes, out loud in a small group.
Verse drama and dramatic verse, Wikipedia
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Verse drama is any drama written significantly in verse (that is: with line endings) to be performed by an actor before an audience.
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