Introduction by Aurélie Griffin (Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France) and Sophie Lemercier-Goddard (ENS de Lyon, France)

I. Plays for the Page

1. Before Closet Drama: Periodization, Evidence, and Tudor Household Drama (Patrick Durdel, University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
2. Samuel Brandon's Octavia between Closet Drama and Print: Re-Evaluating Influence (Elena Spinelli, Durham University, UK)
3. 'When perform'd/ Will this dull vow be?': George Chapman's Unstaged Plays (Christine Sukic, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France)

II. Systems of Power

4. With all the ornaments on earth inrich'd': Power and Imagined Properties in Mary Sidney and Samuel Daniel's Cleopatra Plays (Daniel Cadman, Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
5. Race Construction in Fulke Greville's Tragedies (Nora Galland, Côte d'Azur University, France)
6. 'Do any men come among them?' Dramatic Representations of Girls' Schools on the Page and on the Stage” (Orlagh Davies, Durham University, UK)

III. Women Writers

7. Women Writers and the Early Modern Closet: Classification, Performance and the Dramatic Canon (Ramona Wray, Queen's University, Belfast, UK)
8. Elizabeth Brackley's and Jane Cavendish's The Concealed Fancies (c.1645): Space Geography (Marion Wynne-Davies, University of Surrey, UK)
9. Oral and Silent Reading as Performance in Margaret Cavendish's Love's Adventure and The Convent of Pleasure (Line Cottegnies, Sorbonne University, France)

IV. Show and Tell in and around Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam

10. How to Do Things with Words: Learning and Teaching Rhetorics in Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam(Sophie Lemercier-Goddard, ENS de Lyon and Aurélie Griffin, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France)
11. Shows and proofs uneven': Women, evidence and uncertainty in The Tragedy of Mariam (Judith Hudson, Birkbeck University, UK)
12. All Passion Spent: Affective Worlds in Early Modern Closet Drama (Samuel Daniel, Elizabeth Cary, John Milton (Naya Tsentourou, University of Exeter, UK)

V. Staging Closet Drama and Court Masques in the 21st century: Interviews with Directors

13. Staging Daniel's Cleopatra (2013) and Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam (2022) Bethany Mayo (director, Baltimore Shakespeare Factory), Emma Whipday (Newcastle University, UK), Yasmin Arshad (University College London, UK)
14. Staging Lady Mary Wroth's Love's Victory (2022), Alison Findlay (Lancaster University, UK) and Emma Rucastle (Director, ELART Productions)

Afterword by Alison Findlay (Lancaster University, UK)

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