Closet Drama

<p><em>Closet Drama: History, Theory, Form</em> 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.</p> <p>I. <b>CLOSET DRAMA AND STAGINGS OF HISTORY</b></p><p></p><p>CHAPTER ONE:<b> </b>Introduction: "Closet Drama Studies"<br>Catherine Burroughs</p><p></p><p>CHAPTER TWO: The baroque closet: sovereignty and the "home theater" of Cervantes<br>Philip Lorenz</p><p></p><p>CHAPTER THREE: Inverted catharsis in Milton’s <i>Samson Agonistes </i>Brendan Prawzdik</p><p></p><p>CHAPTER FOUR: "Appalling tabernacle of self and unbelief": Wyndham Lewis’s <i>Enemy of the Stars</i><br>Allan Pero </p><p>II. GENDER, SEXUAL POLITICS, AND THE CLOSET</p><p></p><p>CHAPTER FIVE:<b> </b>Horror and terror, gender and fear in<i> </i>Joanna Baillie’s<i> Orra</i>Lilla Crisafulli</p><p></p><p>CHAPTER SIX: Restoration in the closet: Felicia Hemans’ drama in the Napoleonic aftermath<br>Diego Saglia</p><p></p><p>CHAPTER SEVEN: Michael Field's <em>Stephania</em>: the closet drama as a space for female fortitude and artistic agency<br>Michelle S. Lee</p><p>III. CLOSET DRAMA AND GENRE </p><p></p><p>CHAPTER EIGHT: "Closeted" discourses in private theatricals: the mystification of genre and audience in Christian Carstairs’ <i>The Hubble-Shue</i> <br>Gioia Angeletti</p><p></p><p>CHAPTER NINE: Scarred phonation and the act of listening in Byron's <em>Marino Faliero</em> <br>Elizabeth Effinger</p><p></p><p>CHAPTER TEN: "Crazier than a fish with titties": the hybridity of closet drama in R. Kelly’s <i>Trapped in the Closet</i>Fredric V. Bogel</p><p>IV: FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR CLOSET DRAMA STUDIES</p><p></p><p>CHAPTER ELEVEN: Closet television, queer <em>Hooperman</em><br>Nick Salvato</p><p></p><p>CHAPTER TWELVE: Theatrical performance in the margins: imagined theatres on page and stage<br>Daniel Sack</p><p></p><p>Appendix: uncloseting Jonas Barish’s book on closet drama<br>Catherine Burroughs</p>