Verlag:
Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK
Examining some of the most iconic texts in English theatre history, including Titus Andronicus and The Changeling, this book, now in paperback with a new Preface, reveals the pernicious erasure of rape and violence against women in the early modern...
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Examining some of the most iconic texts in English theatre history, including Titus Andronicus and The Changeling, this book, now in paperback with a new Preface, reveals the pernicious erasure of rape and violence against women in the early modern era and the politics and ethics of rehearsing these negotiations on the 20th and 21st century stages. "Examining some of the most iconic texts in English theatre history, including Titus Andronicus, The Duchess of Malfi and The Changeling, this book reveals the pernicious erasure of rape and violence against women in the early modern era, and the politics and ethics of rehearsing these negotiations on the twentieth- and twenty-first century stages"--Provided by publisher
Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-203) and index
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1 Encounters with the Missing: From the Invisible Act to In/visible Acts; 2 Rape's Metatheatrical Return: Rehearsing Sexual Violence in Titus Andronicus; 3 The Punitive Scene and the Performance of Salvation: Violence, the Flesh, and the Word; 4 Witness to Despair: The Martyr of Malfi's Ghost; 5 The Architecture of the Act: Renovating Beatrice Joanna's Closet; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index
