1st Edition

Echoes of Violence on the Early Modern English Stage and Beyond

Edited By Samantha Dressel, Matthew Carter Copyright 2026
228 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book offers a compelling examination of how violence reverberates through Renaissance drama and early modern society. This edited collection explores the multifaceted nature of violence in early modern England, revealing how violent acts create ripple effects that extend far beyond their initial occurrence. The book's chapters investigate these echoes and distortions, making historically... Read more

Contributors

 

Introduction by Samantha Dressel and Matthew Carter

Chapter 1. Revenge Realness by Samantha Dressel

Chapter 2. Contextualizing Marital Violence: Violent Manners in Early Modern London Consistory Court Cases by Loreen L. Giese

Chapter 3. “The Obscene ob skene: Offstage Sexual Violence in Early Modern Drama” by Emma K. Atwood

Chapter 4. “Sonic Violence in Webster’s The Duchess of Malfiby Amanda Eubanks Winkler

Chapter 5. Titular Violence in Beaumont and Fletcher’s The Maid’s Tragedy by Megan Snell

Chapter 6. Shakespeare’s Violent Heads by Amina H. Tajbhai

Chapter 7. Hotspur’s Trauma: Memory, Identity and War in 1 Henry IV by Eric Dunnum

Chapter 8. Vanishing Echoes of Violence: The Strange Case of George Silver and the Masters of Defense by Matthew Carter

Chapter 9. Pity and Compassion at the Scaffold in Early Modern England by Jennifer Lodine-Chaffey

Chapter 10. Echoes of Peace: Intertextuality, Humanism, and Violence in Shakespeare’s King John

by Paul Joseph Zajac

 

Index

Biography

Samantha Dressel is Assistant Professor of English in Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Chapman University, USA.

Matthew Carter is Assistant Professor of English at Clayton State University, USA.