optical illusion
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op·ti·cal il·lu·sion
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an experience of seeming to see something that does not exist or that is other than it appears.
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something that deceives one's eyes and causes such an experience.
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optical illusion
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Michael Simpson. Closet Performances: Political Exhibition and Prohibition in the Dramas of Byron and Shelley.
Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...in coded form" (3). Closet Performances states that apparent...This book shows that the dramas' "vaunted confinement in...vehemently" (6) and that these dramas become "rhetorical fantasies...romantic-period criticism of dramas narrates the existence of dramatic...audiences for different forms of ...
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Privacy, Playreading, and Women's Closet Drama, 1550-1700.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Playreading, and Women's Closet Drama, 1550-1700. Cambridge...her thesis thusly: "Closet drama is an alternative to the commercial...aptly situates the closet drama within the larger theatrical...audiences and the female closet drama she covers, she sees both...wider, ...
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Marta Straznicky. Privacy, Playreading, and Women's Closet Drama, 1550-1700.(Book review)
Magazine article from: English Studies in Canada; 9/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Privacy, Playreading, and Women's Closet Drama, 1550-1700. New York; Cambridge...concludes that the privacy of the closet, "a site of writing, reading...controlled "private" circulation of closet drama permitted an "ideological resistance...
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Privacy, Playreading and Early Modern Women's Closet Drama.
Magazine article from: Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Playreading and Early Modern Women's Closet Drama, by Marta Straznicky. Cambridge: Cambridge...have argued the political engagement of closet drama, but Straznicky's view that approaching closet drama as an alternative to public theater...
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Reading the stage: Margaret Cavendish and Commonwealth closet drama.
Magazine article from: Criticism; 6/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...article also aims to raise awareness of closet drama as a genre where unexamined theoretical...The persistent belittlement of closet drama is a case in point, originating...women especially wrote plays for the closet rather than the stage."(6) To...
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Closet drama.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 3/1/2002; ; 629 words
; ...so stimulating in Peter Shaffer's 1958 drama about the middleclass Harrington family...chatterbox daughter. But at the centre of the drama is the whining older son, Clive, a student...repression. A not-coming-out-of-the-closet story. A play that dare not speak its...
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Closet dramas; Some TV fashionistas need a wardrobe re-write.(Arts and Lifestyle)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 11/6/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...shows. Perhaps the costumers were distracted by the fashion drama of the presidential race. It's hard to resist tales of...sartorial sludge on CW's "Stylista," some schooling. Hair drama Lovers of all things vintage can sate their retro addiction...
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Closet drama; Five-step program cleans out your wardrobe and gives you new look.(Arts and Lifestyle)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 3/23/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...fashion editor with the out-of-control closet? There's been no good reason for the...process called "Nothing to Wear?" "The closet should be a Zen place, not a torture...Your Wardrobe I tackled my overstuffed closet with gusto - even lighting a candle as...
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Closet Drama
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/25/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...justice, but mostly it's about the closet. In a poem called "To His Coy Mistress...Marvel perhaps was less familiar with the closet, which for many is a fine place to passionately...the novelist, isn't embracing the closet. He writes also that "My Lucky Star...
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Openly Latina: Welch exits closet for PBS drama
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 7/28/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...PREVIEW Openly Latina: Welch exits closet for PBS drama By JOANNE WEINTRAUB Journal Sentinel...PBS' "American Family," a new drama scheduled for January. "I've made it a point to be in the closet as a Latina or a Hispanic for many...
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closet drama
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
closet drama a play that is meant to be read rather...s Apology is often regarded as tragic drama rather than philosophic dialogue. The...transplantation from Greece to Rome. Closet dramas were particularly popular in the early...
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Closet Drama
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Closet Drama, plays written to be read as opposed to those intended for production...Musset's have joined the permanent repertory. The term ‘closet drama’ also includes translations of plays, usually classics in...
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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...unknown. As the only extant dramas from the Roman empire Seneca...influence on the development of drama in modern times has been profound...of the fact that they were closet dramas . In spite of the fact that...all reappear in Elizabethan drama, and even if such effects...
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...little attention, but Atalanta in Calydon (1865), a poetic drama modeled on Greek tragedy, brought him fame. In 1866 he published...Baudelaire), and "Hertha." Swinburne also wrote three closet dramas on Mary Queen of Scots— Chastelard (1865), Bothwell...
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Chorus
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Chorus, in Greek drama a group of actors who stand aside from the main action of the play...introductory prologue, a legacy from Euripides handed down via the Roman closet dramas of Seneca . He spoke either at the beginning of the play, as in...
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