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=== Elizabethan and Jacobean ===
[[Fulke Greville]], [[Samuel Daniel]], Elizabeth Cary, Margaret Cavendish, [[William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling|Sir William Alexander]], and [[Mary Sidney]] wrote closet dramas in the age of [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]] and [[Ben Jonson|Jonson]].<ref name=":3">Randall, Dale J. B. ''Winter Fruit: English Drama 1642–1660.'' Lexington, KY, University Press of Kentucky, 1995.</ref>
Between 1642 and 1660, the English government banned public performance. During this time, playreading became a "substitute" for playgoing. Thus, playwrights were moved to take on "propagandist aims" against parliament and topics beyond the theatre in their writing, meaning reading such work could be considered a revolutionary act. However, playwrights could write in relative security, protected by the anonymous means of print. [[Thomas Killigrew]] is an example of a stage playwright who turned to closet drama when his plays could no longer be produced during this period; he was in exile from England during the [[English Civil War]].<ref name=":2">Kennedy, Dennis. ''Theatre & Performance''. Oxford University Press, 2003 p.282</ref>
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