drama more suitable for reading that for performing

a piece of literature written in a dramatic form that is not intended to be performed by actors

a play that is primarily designed to be read

A play written to be read rather than performed on stage.

A play that is to be read rather than performed onstage. In closet dramas, literary art outweighs all other considerations such as coherence and the feasibility of the drama to be staged.

A closet drama is a play that is not intended to be performed onstage, but read by a solitary reader or, sometimes, out loud in a small group. While all plays can be read as literature without being performed, closet dramas are designed especially for reading and do not concern themselves with stage technique. Featuring little action but mostly philosophical rhetoric, they are rarely produced for the stage, though this does happen on occasion.