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affect theory theatre
Ancient Rome
andronicus
anne
Anne Bracegirdle
Author_Mathew R. Martin
Beaumont
bracegirdle
Capital Punishment
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Charles I
Crimson
Early Modern
early modern drama
elkanah
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Follow
Gloucester
Holds
Human Suffering
judicial punishment performance
Mitchell Merback
Muly Hamet
narrative
OED
Public Execution
public execution aesthetics
Renaissance tragedy analysis
representations of suffering on stage
revenge
Revenger's Tragedy
Revenger’s Tragedy
settle
Tamburlaine Part
theatrical embodiment
titus
Titus Andronicus
tragedy
Tragic Glass
Tragic Mimesis
traumatic
Traumatic Narrative
Violated
Voltaire's Brutus
Voltaire’s Brutus
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780754667582
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 06 Aug 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Bookending the chronology of this collection are two crucial moments in the histories of pain, trauma, and their staging in British theater: the establishment of secular and professional theater in London in the 1580s, and the growing dissatisfaction with theatrical modes of public punishment alongside the increasing efficacy of staging extravagant spectacles at the end of the eighteenth century. From the often brutal spectacle of late medieval mystery plays to early Romantic re-evaluations of eighteenth-century appropriations of spectacles of pain, the essays take up the significance of these watershed moments in British theater and expand on recent work treating bodies in pain: what and how pain means, how such meaning can be embodied, how such embodiment can be dramatized, and how such dramatizations can be put to use and made meaningful in a variety of contexts. Grouped thematically, the essays interrogate individual plays and important topics in terms of the volume's overriding concerns, among them Tamburlaine and The Maid's Tragedy, revenge tragedy, Joshua Reynolds on public executions, King Lear, Settle's Moroccan plays, spectacles of injury, torture, and suffering, and Joanna Baillie's Plays on the Passions. Collectively, these essays make an important contribution to the increasingly interrelated histories of pain, the body, and the theater.
James Robert Allard and Mathew R. Martin are both Associate Professors in the Department of English Language and Literature at Brock University, Canada.
