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