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Author Solga, Kim, 1974- author.

Title Violence against women in early modern performance : invisible acts / Kim Solga
Published Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 212 pages) : illustrations
Contents Encounters with the missing : from the invisible act to in/visible acts -- Rape's metatheatrical return : rehearsing sexual violence in Titus Andronicus -- The punitive scene and the performance of salvation : violence, the flesh, and the word -- Witness to despair : the martyr of Malifi's ghost --The architecture of the act : renovating Beatrice Joanna's closet
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-203) and index
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Subject English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism
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
Theatre studies.
Literary studies: plays & playwrights.
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800.
Gender studies, gender groups.
DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Performing Arts.
Abused women in literature
English drama
Rape in literature
Rape victims in literature
Sex crimes in literature
Theater and society
Violence in literature
Violence in the theater
Gewalt
Inszenierung
Misshandelte Frau
Drama
Frau
Drama -- englisches -- Motiv -- Frau -- Gewalt.
Drama -- englisches -- Motiv -- Vergewaltigung.
Vergewaltigung -- Motiv -- Drama -- englisches.
Frau -- Gewalt -- Motiv -- Drama -- englisches.
Gewalt -- Frau -- Motiv -- Drama -- englisches.
Drama -- englisches -- Motiv -- Gewalt -- Frau.
England
Englisch.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230274051
0230274056
9781282673915
1282673912