196 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
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A decade after the Restoration of Charles II, a disturbing group of tragedies, dubbed by modern critics the horror or the blood-and-torture villain tragedies, burst onto the London stage. Ten years later they were gone - absorbed into the partisan frenzy which enveloped the theatre at the height of the Exclusion Crisis. Despite burgeoning interest, until now there has been no full investigation... Read more
Preface
1 Horror and Spectacle
2 Memory, Re-enactment and Trauma
3 Monstrous Women: Aphra Behn's Abdelazer; or, The Moor's Revenge and Elkanah Settle's The Empress of Morocco
4 Degenerate Rulers: Nathaniel Lee's The Tragedy of Nero and The Rival Queens
5 Patrilineal Discord: Nathaniel Lee and John Dryden's Oedipus and Thomas Otway's Don Carlos
6 Forsaken Justice: Thomas Shadwell's The Libertine and the Early of Rochester's Lucina's Rape Or the Tragedy of Vallentinian
Biography
Anne Hermanson is an Associate Lecturer in Shakespeare and Children's Literature at The Open University, UK.
