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Introduction 1. Privacy, play reading and performance 2. Jane Lumley: humanist translation and the culture of play reading 3. Elizabeth Cary: 'private' drama and print 4. Margaret Cavendish: the closing of the theatres and the politics of play reading 5. Anne Finch: authorship, privacy and the Restoration stage Conclusion. 'Closet' drama: Private space, private stage, and gender Bibliography.
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