Violence against women in early modern performance invisible acts

Violence against women in early modern performance : invisible acts / Kim Solga.

Author/creator	Solga, Kim, 1974-
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan,
Description	xi, 212 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Springer Books
Subject(s)	English drama--17th century --History and criticism. Sex crimes in literature. Rape in literature. Abused women in literature. Violence in literature. Rape victims in literature. Violence in the theater. Theater and society--England --History --17th century.

Contents	Encounters with the missing: from the invisible act to in/visible acts -- Rape's metatheatrical return: rehearsing sexual violence in Titus Andronicus -- 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.
Abstract	"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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-203) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2009043524
ISBN	9780230219540

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