Staging pain, 1580-1800 : violence and trauma in British theater /: violence and trauma in British theater. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by James Robert Allard and Mathew R. Martin.
• Other Names: Allard, James Robert; Martin, Mathew R, 1970-
• Contents: Contents: Introduction: staging pain, Mathew R. Martin and James Robert Allard; Part I Traumatic Effects: 'This Tragic glass': tragedy and trauma in Tamburlaine Part 1, Mathew R. Martin; 'Uncollected man': trauma and the early modern mind-body in The Maid's Tragedy, Zackariah C. Long. Part II Pedagogies of Pain: 'These were spectacles to please my soul': inventive violence in the Renaissance revenge tragedy, Annalisa Castaldo; A 'bracing' moment: Reynolds' response to Boswell and Burke on the aesthetics and ethics of public executions, William Levine. Part III Bodies (Im)Politic: Radical pity responding to spectacles of violence in King Lear, John D. Staines; Cutting, branding, whipping, burning: the performance of judicial punishment in early modern England, Sarah Covington; Tortured bodies, factionalism and unsettled loyalties in Settle's Morocco plays, Susan B. Iwanisziw. Part IV Spectacular Failures: Lavinia's rape: reading the Restoration actress's body in pain in Ravenscroft's Titus, Kara Reilly; Sympathy pains: filicide and the spectacle of male heroic suffering on the 18th-century stage, Cecilia A. Feilla; Joanna Baillie and the theater of consequence, James Robert Allard; Bibliography; Index.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (232 pages)
• Subjects: 792.0941; Theater -- Great Britain -- History; Violence in the theater; Pain in literature; Theater and society -- Great Britain
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351898218; 1351898213
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