Closet drama : history, theory, form

Author(s)

• Burroughs, Catherine B.

Bibliographic Information

Closet drama : history, theory, form

edited by Catherine Burroughs

（Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies）

Routledge, 2019

• : hbk

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

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

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BC03811143
• ISBN:
  • 9781138092563
• LCCN: 2018006780
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 277 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PN1935
  • DC23 : 809.2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Closet drama -- History and criticism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA76388651