Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-178) and index.
Contents:
Horror and spectacle -- Memory, re-enactment and trauma -- Monstrous women: Aphra Behn's Abdelazer; or The moor's revenge and Elkanah Settle's The empress of Morocco -- Degenerate rulers: Nathaniel Lee's The tragedy of Nero and The rival queens -- Patrilineal discord: Nathaniel Lee and John Dryden's Oedipus and Thomas Otway's Don Carlos -- Forsaken justice: Thomas Shadwell's The libertine and the Earl of Rochester's Lucina's rape or The tragedy of Vallentinian.
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