Closet Drama in Early Modern England

Aurélie Griffin is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France. Sophie Lemercier-Goddard is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature at the École Normale Supérieure, France.

• List of IllustrationsContributorsIntroduction by Aurélie Griffin (Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France) & Sophie Lemercier-Goddard (ENS de Lyon, France)I. Plays for the Page? 1. Before Closet Drama: Periodization, Evidence, and the Non-Performance of Tudor Interludes, Patrick Durdel (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)2. ‘When perform’d / Wil this dull vow be?’: George Chapman’s Unstaged Plays, Christine Sukic (University of Reims, France)II. Systems of Power 3. ‘With all the ornaments on earth inrich’d’: Power and Imagined Properties in Mary Sidney and Samuel Daniel’s Cleopatra Plays, Daniel Cadman (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)4. Race and the Christian Anatomy of Islam in Three Closet Dramas, Nora Galland (Côte d'Azur University, France) III. Show and Tell in The Tragedy of Mariam 5. How to Do Things with Words: Learning and Teaching Rhetorics in The Tragedy of Mariam, Sophie Lemercier-Goddard (ENS de Lyon, France) and Aurélie Griffin (Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France)6. ‘Shows and proofs uneven’: Evidence, Uncertainty and Women on Trial in The Tragedy of Mariam, Judith Hudson (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK)7. ‘All Passion Spent’?: Affective Worlds in Early Modern Closet Drama, Naya Tsentourou (University of Exeter, UK)IV. Household Drama in the Cavendish circle8. ‘[Our] brain, the stage’: Oral and Silent Reading in Margaret Cavendish’s Love’s Adventure and The Convent of Pleasure, Line Cottegnies (Sorbonne University, France)9. Rereading Elizabeth Brackley and Jane Cavendish’s The Concealed Fancies as a Town Comedy, Marion Wynne-Davies (University of Surrey, UK)V. Staging Closet Drama in the Twenty-First Century10. Women’s Closet Drama and Site-Specific Performances, Alison Findlay (Lancaster University, UK), Emma Rucastle (Director, ELART Productions) and Robert Crighton for the Beyond Shakespeare Podcast11. Staging Samuel Daniel’s Cleopatra (2013) and Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam (2022): Agency, Embodiment and Female Performance, Yasmin Arshad (University College London, UK), Emma Whipday (Newcastle University, UK), Bethany Mayo (Director, Baltimore Shakespeare Factory), Aurélie Griffin (Sorbonne University Nouvelle, France) and Sophie Lemercier-Goddard (ENS de Lyon, France)BibliographyIndex