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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 addresses other questions about the historical invention of English literature, the relation between literature and drama, and the relation between literature and political culture. The plays are shown to acquiesce in, and yet also resist, subvert, and ironize by means of a parodic self-censorship, the political, theatrical, and ecclesiastical censorship of the post-Waterloo period. The author argues that they not only explore questions of political action in their plots but also reconstruct, by reconvening, a radical audience that had been virtually eliminated in England during the period of the counterrevolutionary and Napoleonic wars.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Pełny tytuł: Closet Performances
• Podtytuł: Political Exhibition and Prohibition in the Dramas of Byron and Shelley
• Autor: Michael Simpson
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Twarda
• Liczba stron: 488
• EAN: 9780804730952
• ISBN: 0804730954
• ID: 04716690
• Wydawca: Stanford University Press
• Waga: 907 g
• Wymiary: 234 × 156 × 32 mm
• Data wydania: 01. July 1998

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