Closet Dramas

[ForrestJG]

A closet drama is a play which is meant, basically, to be read instead of performed on stage. I'm getting quite into them, because there's nothing like being completely absorbed by a play that you can read and follow closely. I know Goethe's Faust is a closet drama, and I want to read that but are there any other closet dramas that you could recommend? I think Keats' Otho The Greats' discourse resembles that of a closet drama, but I didn't find that mentioned anywhere online...so I might be missing out on some descent closet dramas that are out there. Any recommendations?

[kelby_lake]

Peer Gynt by Ibsen is really a closet drama, though it has been performed.
I think all of Seneca's plays are closet dramas.
Cromwell by Victor Hugo is really one.

[Panglossian]

The night-town section in James Joyce's Ulysses is a bit of crazy closet drama. I keep meaning to read Peer Gynt. I think I might like closet dramas even though I havent really read any as such.

[OrphanPip]

Seneca's plays are probably the most famous closet dramas. Elizabeth Cary's Tragedy of Mariam is an example of an English Renaissance closet drama.