Closet drama : history, theory, form / edited by Catherine Burroughs.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burroughs, Catherine B., 1958- editor.

Series:

Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Closet drama--History and criticism.

Closet drama.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 277 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138092563

1138092568

OCLC:

1047574341

Publisher Number:

40028571238