Closet performances
Subtitle: political exhibition and prohibition in the dramas of Byron and Shelley
By: Michael Simpson.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 469
Subjects: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Dramatic works; Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Political and social views; Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 -- Political and social views; Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 -- Dramatic works; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; English drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Political plays, English -- History and criticism; Censorship -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Verse drama, English -- History and criticism; Radicalism in literature
Description: Detailed discussion of individual plays - Manfred, Sardanapalus, Prometheus Unbound, Marino Faliero, Hellas, Cain, Heaven and Earth, The Two Foscari, and The Cenci - is supported by investigations into Romantic criticism of the drama, the dynamics of the reviewing journals, and the philosophical construct of the "closet" of reasoning and reading.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [451]-464) and index.