Boundaries of Violence in Early Modern England

Herausgeber: Dressel, Samantha; Carter, Matthew

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the possibilities and limitations of violence on the early modern stage and in the early modern world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9781032333359
• ISBN-10: 1032333359
• Artikelnr.: 72111395

Autorenporträt

Samantha Dressel is Assistant Professor in Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Chapman University, USA. Matthew Carter is Assistant Professor of English at Clayton State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contributor Biographies
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Boundaries of Theatrical Violence
Chapter 2. "Witchy Woman": Reading Women and Occult Power in Popular
Literature of Early Modern England
Chapter 3. The Grotesque Female Body on the Scaffold: The Execution of
Annis Bankyn (1590)
Chapter 4. "I Will Keepe None of There Bastardes": The Violence of Scarcity
in Ben Jonson's Every Man Out of His Humour
Chapter 5. "A x to her, slaps her face-she kneels": Violence between the
Lines in 2.4 of Measure for Measure
Chapter 6. 'Villains, all three': Object-led Violence in The Revenger's
Tragedy
Chapter 7. Fool on the Body and Madness on the Mind in John Marston's
Antonio Plays
Chapter 8. "Slack in [Neither] Tongue [Nor] Performance": The Duchess's
Maternal Authority and Incestuous Revenge in The Revenger's Tragedy
Chapter 9. 'This Stroke for the Most Wronged of Women': Sexual Coercion and
Revenge Violence in The Maid's Tragedy
Coda
Index