Closet drama : history, theory, form /
edited by Catherine Burroughs.
- xii, 277 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
- Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies .
- Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies. .
"First published 2019"--Title page verso.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-265) and index.
Closet drama and stagings of history. Introduction: closet drama studies / The Baroque closet: sovereignty and the "home theater" of Cervantes / Inverted catharsis and John Milton's Reinvention of Aristotle in Samson Agonistes (1671) / Appalling tabernacle of self and unbelief: Wyndham Lewis's Enemy of the stars (1932) / Gender, sexual politics, and the closet. Horror and terror, gender and fear in Joanna Baillie's Orra / Restoration in the closet: Felicia Hemans' drama in the Napoleonic aftermath / Something of his manhood falls: Stephania as critique of victorian male aesthetics and masculinity / Closet drama and genre: "closeted" discourses in private theatricals: the mystification of genre and audience in Christian Carstairs' The hubble-shue (ca. 1786) / Scarred phonation and the aesthetics of silence in Byron's Marino Faliero (1821) / Crazier than a fish with titties: the hybridity of closet drama in R. Kelly's Trapped in the closet / Future directions for closet drama studies: "closet television" / Theatrical performance in the margins: imagined theatres on page and stage / Appendix: uncloseting Jonas Barish's planned book on closet drama / Catherine Burroughs -- Philip Lorenz -- Brendan Prawzdik -- Allan Pero -- Lilla Crisafulli -- Diego Saglia -- Michelle Lee -- Gioia Angeletti -- Elizabeth Effinger -- Fredric V. Bogel -- Nick Salvato -- Daniel Sack -- Catherine Burroughs.