附註:Originally published: 2004.
103年科技部補助人文及社會科學研究圖書設備計畫規劃主題 : 藝術學 : 全球化與劇場跨界.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Privacy, playreading, and performance -- Jane Lumley : humanist translation and the culture of playreading -- Elizabeth Cary : "private" drama and print -- Margaret Cavendish : the closing of the theatres and the politics of playreading -- Anne Finch : authorship, privacy and the Restoration stage -- Conclusion. "Closet" drama : private space, private stage, and gender.
摘要:"Marta Straznicky offers a detailed historical analysis of early modern women's closet plays: plays explicitly written for reading, rather than public performance. She reveals that such works were part of an alternative dramatic tradition, an elite and private literary culture, which was understood as intellectually superior to and politically more radical than commercial drama. Elizabeth Cary, Jane Lumley, Anne Finch, and Margaret Cavendish wrote their plays in this conjunction of the public and the private at a time when male playwrights dominated the theatres..."--Back cover.
