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OverviewDisplaced to Italy by their politics and morals, Byron and Shelley wrote, between 1816 and 1823, a series of closet dramas that the author reveals as being deeply embedded in contemporary radical culture. Why did they write dramas in Italy that were to be published in England but not to be produced theatrically? Why do these dramas invoke and apparently oppose textual and theatrical versions of themselves? In answering these questions, this book addresses other questions about the historical invention of English literature, the relation between literature and drama, and the relation between literature and political culture. The plays are shown to acquiesce in, and yet also resist, subvert, and ironize by means of a parodic self-censorship, the political, theatrical, and ecclesiastical censorship of the post-Waterloo period. The author argues that they not only explore questions of political action in their plots but also reconstruct, by reconvening, a radical audience that had been virtually eliminated in England during the period of the counterrevolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michael SimpsonPublisher: Stanford University Press Imprint: Stanford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.40cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 24.40cm Weight: 0.880kg ISBN: 9780804730952ISBN 10: 0804730954 Pages: 488 Publication Date: 01 July 1998 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: 1. The theoretical management of theatrical spectacle; 2. The politics of language and the language of politics; Part II. 3. The matter of political drama; 4. The economic comedy of (self)censorship; Part III: 5. Secrets of the closet: the private mind and public body; Envoi: across the stage of Europe; Notes; Selected bibliography; Index.ReviewsIts impressively learned contentions from topics of historical fact are framed in a thoughtful context of literary-theoretical debate... The scholarship and the critical perspicuity of Closet Performances make this book one of the best on its topic and one that is likely to be valuable as a resource and as a locus for contention for a long time to come. --Studies in Romanticism Its impressively learned contentions from topics of historical fact are framed in a thoughtful context of literary-theoretical debate. . . . The scholarship and the critical perspicuity of Closet Performances make this book one of the best on its topic and one that is likely to be valuable as a resource and as a locus for contention for a long time to come. -- Studies in Romanticism Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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