Atrocity in Early Modern Drama

Herausgeber: Johnson, Sarah; Bruster, Douglas; Hopkins, Lisa; Lucas, Georgina

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Produktbeschreibung

Extreme violence scarred the early modern period. Contemporary commentators grappled to find language to categorize the massacres, genocides, assassinations, enslavements, sacks, rapes, riots and regicides that characterized the period. Some used 'outrages', others 'cruelties', but, significantly, the term 'atrocity' that we use today gained the most currency. Atrocity in Early Modern English Drama intervenes in the broad field of violence and early modern drama by placing acts of atrocity at its centre. In doing so, this essay collection offers the first book-length examination of atrocities and early modern English drama. The volume considers atrocity in early theatre, its varied representations in contemporary Shakespeare performance, and strategies for teaching early modern atrocity drama. Contributors introduce us to atrocity in the works of Shakespeare, John Fletcher, William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton across a range of forms including comedy, tragedy, revenge, cinematic adaptation, documentary film and contemporary theatre. The collection addresses the intersections of atrocities through class, crime, gender, race and the natural world. Together, the chapters interrogate how early modern English drama reflects upon and shapes understandings of the historically contingent, politically loaded and culturally contentious phenomena of atrocity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 138mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781350272392
• ISBN-10: 1350272396
• Artikelnr.: 69930342

Autorenporträt

Sarah Johnson is Associate Professor in the department of English, Culture, and Communication at the Royal Military College of Canada. Georgina Lucas is a Lecturer in English Literature at Edinburgh Napier University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1.Georgina Lucas (Independent scholar) and Sarah Johnson (Royal Military College of Canada)
'Introduction' Part One: Typologies 2. Sarah Johnson (Royal Military College of Canada)
'War Crimes and Erasure in John Fletcher's The Tragedy of Bonduca' 3. Kirsten Mendoza (University of Dayton
Ohio
USA)
'The Poetics of Violated Property: Rape and Race on the Early Modern Stage' 4. Matt Carter (University of North Carolina at Greensboro
USA)
'Dismemberment
Cannibalism
and Revenge in Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton's The Bloody Banquet' 5. Jennifer Feather (University of North Carolina at Greensboro
USA)
'The Merchant of Venice and Environmental Atrocity' 6. Catherine Clifford (Graceland University
USA)
'Accidents and Atrocities in the Elizabethan Tournament' Part Two: Performance 7. Edel Lamb (Queen's University
Belfast
UK)
'"When the hurly-burly's done": Shakespeare after the Astor Place Riots' 8. Georgina Lucas (Independent Scholar)
'Rwanda and Juliet: Shakespeare and Post-Genocide Reconciliation' 9. Ramona Wray (Queen's University
Belfast
UK)
'Televising Atrocity and The Hollow Crown: Changing Technologies and "Renaissance" Aesthetics' 10. Brandi Adams (Arizona State University
USA)
'"[S]poyling
slaughter
and sondry torments": Atrocities in Shakespeare's Henriad and David Michôd and Joel Edgerton's The King' Part Three: Pedagogy 11. Patricia Cahill (Emory University
USA)
'Starting with Witchcraft: Atrocity in the Classroom' 12. Matthieu Chapman (State University of New York at New Paltz
USA)
'The Atrocity of Denying Black Being in Shakespearean Performance' 13. Nora Williams (University of Essex
UK)
'Disrupting Atrocious Dramaturgies in Measure for Measure' Notes References Index