1st Edition

Boundaries of Violence in Early Modern England

172 Pages

by Routledge

172 Pages

by Routledge

172 Pages

by Routledge

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Description

This book explores the possibilities and limitations of violence on the Early Modern stage and in the Early Modern world. This collection is divided into three sections: History-cal Violence, (Un)Comic Violence, and Revenge Violence. This division allows scholars to easily find intertextual materials; comic violence may function similarly across multiple comedies but is vastly different from... Read more

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