Screen LibraryViolence against women in early modern performance Invisible acts /
Examining some of the most iconic texts in English theatre history, including Titus Andronicus, The Duchess of Malfi and The Changeling, this book reveals the pernicious erasure of rape and violence against women in the early modern era, and the politics and ethics of rehearsing these negotiations o...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Examining some of the most iconic texts in English theatre history, including Titus Andronicus, The Duchess of Malfi and The Changeling, this book reveals the pernicious erasure of rape and violence against women in the early modern era, and the politics and ethics of rehearsing these negotiations on the twentieth- and twenty-first century stages. 'Introducing the complex and useful concept of 'in/visible acts' -- of witnessing, among other things -- Kim Solga provides a nuanced and carefully historicized feminist performance analysis of violence against women as it is at once represented and disappeared in both early modern performance and contemporary productions of early modern plays. The book brilliantly negotiates the tensions involved in staging spectacular absence, and the problems and promises of making ethical use of representations produced by iconic playwrights who are emphatically neither feminist nor 'our contemporaries.' Compellingly written, theoretically sophisticated, thickly researched, and surprisingly uplifting, Violence Against Women in Early Modern Performance is a major contribution to early modern, feminist, theatre and performance studies. It concludes with a bracing call for an actively ethical critical spectatorship in our time.' - Ric Knowles, Professor of Theatre Studies, University of Guelph, Canada 'Powerfully argued and elegantly written, Solga's book reminds us that the practices of violence against women, so familiar in early modern theatre, return with spectacular force in these plays' re-representation as contemporary performance. But the author provides much more than this analysis as she insists on our potential as spectators and readers who can make a difference, as champions of an ethical reception. This is an inspiring book that deserves serious attention.' - Susan Bennett, University of Calgary, Canada. |
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Electronic book text. Originally published in: 2009. |
| Carrier Form: | 224 p. : 9 b&w, halftones. |
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9780230219540 9780230274051 : 0230274056 : |
| CLC: | I561.074 |
| Contents: | List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Encounters with the Missing: From the Invisible Acts to In/visible Acts Rape's Metatheatrical Return: Rehearsing Sexual Violence Among the Early Moderns The Punitive Scene and the Performance of Salvation: Violence, the Flesh, and the Word Witness to Despair: The Martyr of Malfi's Ghost The Architecture of the Act: Renovating Beatrice Joanna's Closet Afterword Bibliography Notes Index. |