Reading Drama in Eighteenth-Century France

Reading Drama in Eighteenth-Century France is the first book-length study of how plays were read in eighteenth-century France and, relatedly, of closet drama: excessive plays that cannot be performed within the playhouse''s confines and which thus appeal to the reader''s imagination. This period in France was characterized by ''théâtromanie'', a craze that encompassed the page as well as the sta...