Examining some of the most iconic texts in English theatre history, includingTitus 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. INDICE: List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - 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 andthe Performance of Salvation: Violence, the Flesh, and the Word - Witness to Despair: The Martyr of Malfi's Ghost - The Architecture of the Act: RenovatingBeatrice Joanna's Closet - Afterword - Bibliography - Notes - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-21954-0
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha Publicación: 29/09/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés