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 HISTORYCHAPTER ONE: Introduction: "Closet Drama Studies"Catherine BurroughsCHAPTER TWO: The baroque closet: sovereignty and the "home theater" of CervantesPhilip LorenzCHAPTER THREE: Inverted catharsis in Milton’s Samson Agonistes Brendan PrawzdikCHAPTER FOUR: "Appalling tabernacle of self and unbelief": Wyndham Lewis’s Enemy of the StarsAllan Pero II. GENDER, SEXUAL POLITICS, AND THE CLOSETCHAPTER FIVE: Horror and terror, gender and fear in Joanna Baillie’s OrraLilla CrisafulliCHAPTER SIX: Restoration in the closet: Felicia Hemans’ drama in the Napoleonic aftermathDiego SagliaCHAPTER SEVEN: Michael Field's Stephania: the closet drama as a space for female fortitude and artistic agencyMichelle S. LeeIII. CLOSET DRAMA AND GENRE CHAPTER EIGHT: "Closeted" discourses in private theatricals: the mystification of genre and audience in Christian Carstairs’ The Hubble-Shue Gioia AngelettiCHAPTER NINE: Scarred phonation and the act of listening in Byron's Marino Faliero Elizabeth EffingerCHAPTER TEN: "Crazier than a fish with titties": the hybridity of closet drama in R. Kelly’s Trapped in the ClosetFredric V. BogelIV: FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR CLOSET DRAMA STUDIESCHAPTER ELEVEN: Closet television, queer HoopermanNick SalvatoCHAPTER TWELVE: Theatrical performance in the margins: imagined theatres on page and stageDaniel SackAppendix: uncloseting Jonas Barish’s book on closet dramaCatherine Burroughs