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