Closet Drama - History, Theory, Form

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Orra Lilla 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 Closet Fredric 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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• Authors: Catherine Burroughs
• Assisted by: Catherine Burroughs (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781138092563
• ISBN: 978-1-138-09256-3
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies; Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; DRAMA / General, DRAMA / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, DRAMA / European / Spanish & Portuguese, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights