Boundaries of Violence in Early Modern England (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Dressel, Samantha; Carter, Matthew

• Format: PDF

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: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000933451
• Artikelnr.: 68402305

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