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Title:

Staging pain, 1580-1800 : violence and trauma in British theater / edited by James Robert Allard and Mathew R. Martin.

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xii, 220 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Theater--Great Britain--History.
Violence in the theater.
Pain in literature.
Theater and society--Great Britain.
Toneel.
Engels.
Pijn.
Geweld.

Other Authors:

Allard, James Robert.
Martin, Mathew R., 1970-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : staging pain / Mathew R. Martin and James Robert Allard -- 1. "This tragic glass" : tragedy and trauma in Tamburlaine part one / Mathew R. Martin -- 2. "Uncollected man" : trauma and the early modern mind-body in The maid's tragedy / Zackariah C. Long -- 3. "These were spectacles to please my soul" : inventive violence in the Renaissance revenge tragedy / Annalisa Castaldo -- 4. A "bracing" moment : Reynolds' response to Boswell and Burke on the aesthetics and ethics of public executions / William Levine -- 5. Radical pity : responding to spectacles of violence in King Lear / John D. Staines -- 6. Cutting, branding, whipping, burning : the performance of judicial wounding in early modern England / Sarah Covington -- 7. Tortured bodies, factionalism, and unsettled loyalties in Settle's Morocco plays / Susan B. Iwanisziw -- 8. Lavinia's rape : reading the Restoration actress's body in pain in Ravenscroft's Titus / Kara Reilly -- 9. Sympathy pains : filicide and the spectacle of male heroic suffering on the eighteenth-century stage / Cecilia A. Feilla -- 10. Joanna Baillie and the theater of consequence / James Robert Allard.

ISBN:

0754667588 (alk. paper)
9780754667582 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)310171767

LCCN:

2009005302

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)