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Closet Drama : History, Theory, Form / edited by Catherine Burroughs. - First edition. - 1 online resource (290 pages) : 1 illustrations, text file, PDF. - Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies . - Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. --CLOSET DRAMA AND STAGINGS OF HISTORY -- CHAPTER ONE: -- Introduction: "Closet Drama Studies"--Catherine Burroughs -- CHAPTER TWO: The baroque closet: sovereignty and the "home theater" of Cervantes--Philip Lorenz -- CHAPTER THREE: Inverted catharsisin Miltons Samson Agonistes --Brendan Prawzdik -- CHAPTER FOUR: "Appalling tabernacle of self and unbelief": Wyndham Lewiss Enemy of the Stars--Allan Pero -- II. GENDER, SEXUAL POLITICS, AND THE CLOSET -- CHAPTER FIVE: -- Horror and terror,genderand fear in Joanna Baillies Orra--Lilla Crisafulli -- CHAPTER SIX: Restoration in the closet: Felicia Hemans drama in the Napoleonic aftermath--Diego Saglia -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Michael Field's --Stephania: the closet drama as a space for female fortitude and artistic agency--Michelle S. Lee -- III. CLOSET DRAMA AND GENRE -- CHAPTER EIGHT: "Closeted" discourses in private theatricals: the mystification of genre and audience in Christian Carstairs The Hubble-Shue--Gioia Angeletti -- CHAPTER NINE: Scarred phonation and the act of listening in Byron's --Marino Faliero--Elizabeth Effinger -- CHAPTER TEN: "Crazier than a fish with titties": the hybridity of closet drama in R. Kellys Trapped in the Closet--Fredric V. Bogel -- IV: FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR CLOSET DRAMA STUDIES -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: Closet television, queer --Hooperman--Nick Salvato -- CHAPTER TWELVE: Theatrical performance in the margins: imagined theatres on page and stage--Daniel Sack -- Appendix: uncloseting Jonas Barishsbook on closet drama--Catherine Burroughs

Closet Drama: History, Theory, Form introduces the emerging field of Closet Drama Studies by featuring twelve original essays from distinguished scholars who offer fresh and illuminating perspectives on closet drama as a genre. Examining an unusual mix of historical narratives, performances, and texts from the Renaissance to the present, this collection unleashes a provocative array of theoretical concerns about the phenomenon of the closet play-a dramatic text written for reading rather than acting.



ISBN: 9781315107394

Subjects--Topical Terms:
DRAMA / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
DRAMA / European / Spanish & Portuguese.
Baillie.
Byron.
Cervantes.
Closet Drama.
Hemans.
Inchbald.
Milton.
R Kelly.
Stephania.
Closet drama--History and criticism.
Closet drama.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PN1935

Dewey Class. No.: 809.2