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

Studies in Romanticism | March 22, 2002| | Copyright

Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. 469. $56.00.

Largely by "recycling the trope of materialization" in print forms which consign them to mental consumption rather than material enactments, dramas by Shelley and Byron reconstruct the radical political discourse of the 1790s (Wollstonecraft, Paine, Godwin) "in coded form" (3). Closet Performances states that apparent paradox at the outset and interprets it with great learning and with intellectual rigor. This book shows that the dramas' "vaunted confinement in the closet allows them to assert the political ...

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