Machine generated contents note: 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 and the Performance of Salvation : Violence, the Flesh, and the Word -- Witness to Despair: The Martyr of Malfi's Ghost -- The Architecture of the Act: Renovating Beatrice Joanna's Closet -- Afterword.
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.
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