Closet Performances: Political Exhibition and Prohibition in the Dramas of Byron and Shelley

by Michael Simpson and Michael K. Simpson

Displaced to Italy by their politics and morals, Byron and Shelley wrote, between 1816 and 1823, a series of closet dramas that the author reveals as being deeply embedded in contemporary radical culture. Why did they write dramas in Italy that were to be published in England but not to be produced theatrically? Why do these dramas invoke and apparently oppose textual and theatrical versions of themselves? In answering these questions, this book...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804730954
• ISBN13: 9780804730952
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"