Reading drama

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As closet drama or book drama a literary work is known that although the genus-specific form of the drama follows, but not for the implementation on a stage designed. It is therefore not aimed at viewers , but at readers .

A reading drama works independently of the possibilities of the stage technology , the duration of the action and the number of people introduced do not need to be restricted, since the needs of the theater audience or those of a director do not have to be discussed in more detail.

However, it can happen that pieces originally written as reading dramas find their way into the theater over time, such as Goethe's Faust or Schiller's Die Räuber .

literature

  • Helmut Weidhase: closet drama . In: Metzler Literature Lexicon. Terms and Definitions . Edited by Günther and Irmgard Schweikle. 2., revised. Aufl. Metzler, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-476-00668-9 , pp. 265-266.
  • Gero von Wilpert : book drama. In: Subject dictionary of literature (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 231). 6th, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-520-23106-9 , p. 110.