Boundaries of violence in early modern England. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Samantha Dressel, Matthew Carter.
• Editors: Dressel, Samantha; Carter, Matthew (Matthew C.)
• Contents: Contributor Biographies Acknowledgments Introduction; Matthew Carter and Samantha Dressel Chapter 1. The Boundaries of Theatrical Violence; Matthew Carter Chapter 2. "Witchy Woman": Reading Women and Occult Power in Popular Literature of Early Modern England; Courtney A. Parker Chapter 3. The Grotesque Female Body on the Scaffold: The Execution of Annis Bankyn (1590); Jennifer Lodine-Chaffey Chapter 4. "I Will Keepe None of There Bastardes": The Violence of Scarcity in Ben Jonson’s Every Man Out of His Humour; Anthony Brano Chapter 5. "A x to her, slaps her face—she kneels": Violence between the Lines in 2.4 of Measure for Measure; Sid Ray Chapter 6. ‘Villains, all three’: Object-led Violence in The Revenger’s Tragedy; Anna L. Hegland Chapter 7. Fool on the Body and Madness on the Mind in John Marston’s Antonio Plays; Scott O'Neil Chapter 8. "Slack in [Neither] Tongue [Nor] Performance": The Duchess’s Maternal Authority and Incestuous Revenge in The Revenger’s Tragedy; Rose M. Zaloom Chapter 9. ‘This Stroke for the Most Wronged of Women’: Sexual Coercion and Revenge Violence in The Maid’s Tragedy; Samantha Dressel Coda; Jennifer Feather Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (192 pages)
• Subjects: 820.93552; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Violence in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000933482; 9781000933451
• Related ISBNs: 9781032333342
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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