Publisher's Synopsis
This book advances an exploration of the form of unacted drama in the 19th century and the difference between unacted drama and enacted drama. It carries out a critical investigation of why that form exists in its curiously introspective, lyrical shape, and why it exists at all.;By directly confronting the unacted dramas of Byron, Shelley, Browning, Clough, Arnold, Swinburne and Hardy, the author advances a theoretical argument concerning unacted drama as a literary genre while at the same time illuminating the texts which have either been neglected, or considered in other terms.
