Closet Drama

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.

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 Miltons Samson Agonistes Brendan Prawzdik CHAPTER FOUR: "Appalling tabernacle of self and unbelief": Wyndham Lewiss Enemy of the Stars Allan Pero II. GENDER, SEXUAL POLITICS, AND THE CLOSET CHAPTER FIVE: Horror and terror, gender and fear in Joanna Baillies 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. Kellys 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 Barishs book on closet drama Catherine Burroughs