Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I - The Invention of Theatricality -- Chapter 1 - Richard Wagner: The Theatocracy of the Mime -- Part II - The Modernist Closet Drama -- Chapter 2 - Stéphane Mallarmé: The Theater in the Closet -- Chapter 3 - James Joyce: Novel and Drama in Ulysses -- Chapter 4 - Gertrude Stein: Four Saints in Three Acts- A Closet Drama to Be Performed -- Part III - The Diegetic Theater -- Chapter 5 - William Butler Yeats: Poetic Voices in Theatrical Space -- Chapter 6 - Bertolt Brecht: The Theater on a Leash -- Chapter 7 - Samuel Beckett: Actors in Barrels and Gestures in the Text -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.