Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Breaking boundaries: politics and play on the Renaissance stage -- 2 Theatre and punishment: spectacles of death and dying on the stage -- 3 Theatre and cruelty:...
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Breaking boundaries: politics and play on the Renaissance stage -- 2 Theatre and punishment: spectacles of death and dying on the stage -- 3 Theatre and cruelty: Renaissance notions of alterity in Roman tragedies -- 4 Theatre and carnival licence: exploring the boundaries of comic freedom and tragic excess -- 5 Theatre and transgression: secularizing the sacred and sacralizing the secular -- 6 Theatre and the scaffold: social drama and public spectacle in 1649 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index