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Title:

Violence in drama.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

1991

Description:

318 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Violence in the theater.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Streetcar named misogyny / Kathleen Margaret Lant -- Languages of violence / Marcia Blumberg -- Stage violence as thaumaturgic technique / Mary Karen Dahl -- Violation and implication / David Ian Raby -- Mask as sign of violence in contemporary Latin American theatre / Severino João Albuquerque -- 'night Mother and True West / Raynette Halvorsen Smith -- Role of the theatre in Czechoslovakia's "velvet revolution" / Jeremy Adler.
Uses of violence in drama / Thomas Gould -- Violence in Greek tragedy / Simon Goldhill -- Violence and dramatic structure in Euripides' Hecuba / Charles Segal -- Violence on the street / Richard C. Beacham -- Violence and the social body in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament / Victor I. Scherb -- "There must be blood" / John Spalding Gatton -- Mixed feelings about violence in the Corpus Christi plays / Richard L. Homan -- Shakespearean violence / Jonas Barish -- Cultural disintegration in Titus Andronicus / Heather James -- Racine's Bajazet / Maya Slater -- Grand Guignol and the orchestration of violence / Victor Emeljanow -- Ultimate in theatre violence / John M. Callahan -- Lesbian sexuality and violence in the plays of G. B. Shaw / Ellen Gainor -- Violence as tragic farce in Camus's Caligula / Ben Stoltzfus -- Violence in two plays by Federico García Lorca / Kay García -- Apartheid and primitive blood / Rohan Quince.

Series:

Themes in drama, 0263-676X ; 13

ISBN:

9780521403559
0521403553

Locations:

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

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)