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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.

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Author:   Catherine Burroughs
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.580kg
ISBN:  

9781138092563

ISBN 10:   1138092568
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   19 September 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"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 catharsis in Milton’s Samson Agonistes Brendan Prawzdik CHAPTER FOUR: ""Appalling tabernacle of self and unbelief"": Wyndham Lewis’s Enemy of the Stars Allan Pero II. GENDER, SEXUAL POLITICS, AND THE CLOSET CHAPTER FIVE: Horror and terror, gender and fear in Joanna Baillie’s OrraLilla 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. Kelly’s Trapped in the ClosetFredric 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 Barish’s book on closet drama Catherine Burroughs"

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Catherine Burroughs is Professor of English at Wells College and Visiting Professor of English and the Performing Arts and Media Studies Department at Cornell University. A member of Actors’ Equity Association, she is also a novelist.

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