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Closet performances : political exhibition and prohibition in the dramas of Byron and Shelley

Revealing the series of closet dramas written by Byron and Shelley to be deeply embedded in contemporary radical culture, the author explains why the dramas were written and why they invoke and apparently oppose textual and theatrical versions of themselves.
Print Book, English, 1998
Stanford University Press, Stanford (Calif.), 1998
XIII, 469 p. 25 cm
9780804730952, 0804730954
1014861317
Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: 1. The theoretical management of theatrical spectacle; 2. The politics of language and the language of politics; Part II. 3. The matter of political drama; 4. The economic comedy of (self)censorship; Part III: 5. Secrets of the closet: the private mind and public body; Envoi: across the stage of Europe; Notes; Selected bibliography; Index.