Violence against women in early modern performance : invisible acts / Kim Solga.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Solga, Kim, 1974-

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--17th century--History and criticism.

English drama.

Sex crimes in literature.

Rape in literature.

Abused women in literature.

Violence in literature.

Rape victims in literature.

Violence in the theater.

Theater and society--England--History--17th century.

Theater and society.

History.

England.

Physical Description:

xi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Encounters with the Missing : From the Invisible Acts to In/visible Acts

Rape's Metatheatrical Return : Rehearsing Sexual Violence Among the Early Moderns

The Punitive Scene and the Performance of Salvation : Violence, the Flesh, and the Word

Witness to Despair: The Martyr of Malfi's Ghost

The Architecture of the Act: Renovating Beatrice Joanna's Closet

Afterword.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780230219540

0230219543

OCLC:

298778311