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Atrocity and Early Modern Drama

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Availability:In StockContributor:Sarah Johnson (Editor), Georgina Lucas (Editor), Lisa Hopkins (Editor)Series:Arden Studies in Early Modern DramaPublish date:2025-01-23Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Arden ShakespeareISBN-13:9781350272392ISBN-10:1350272396UPC:9781350272392Book Category:Literary Criticism, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Renaissance, Drama, TheaterBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.0803Product ID:SCH7PZ7SKV

Extreme violence scarred the early modern period. Contemporary commentators grappled to find language to categorize the massacres, genocides, assassinations, enslavements, sacks, rapes, riots and regicides that characterized the period. Some used 'outrages', others 'cruelties', but, significantly, the term 'atrocity' that we use today gained the most currency.

Atrocity and Early Modern Drama intervenes in the broad field of violence and early modern drama by placing acts of atrocity at its centre. In doing so, this essay collection offers the first book-length examination of atrocities and early modern English drama. The volume considers atrocity in early theatre, its varied representations in contemporary Shakespeare performance, and strategies for teaching early modern atrocity drama. Contributors introduce us to atrocity in the works of Shakespeare, John Fletcher, William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton across a range of forms including comedy, tragedy, revenge, cinematic adaptation, documentary film and contemporary theatre. The collection addresses the intersections of atrocities through class, crime, gender, race and the natural world. Together, the chapters interrogate how early modern English drama reflects upon and shapes understandings of the historically contingent, politically loaded and culturally contentious phenomena of atrocity.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Arden ShakespeareISBN-13:9781350272392ISBN-10:1350272396UPC:9781350272392Book Category:Literary Criticism, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Renaissance, Drama, TheaterBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.0803Product ID:SCH7PZ7SKV

Sarah Johnson is Associate Professor in the department of English, Culture, and Communication at the Royal Military College of Canada.

Georgina Lucas is a Lecturer in English Literature at Edinburgh Napier University, UK.
Publisher: Arden Shakespeare

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