Boundaries of Violence in Early Modern England

Samantha Dressel, Matthew Carter

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Routledge
18 December 2024

Performance art; Theatre Studies; Shakespeare plays; Literary studies: plays & playwrights

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

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 most tragic violence. While the source texts move beyond Shakespeare, this book follows the classic division of Shakespeare’s plays into history, comedy, and tragedy. Each section of the book contains one chapter engaging with modern dramatic practice along with several that take textual or historical approaches.

This wide-ranging approach means that the book will be appropriate both for specialists in Early Modern violence who are looking across multiple perspectives, and for students or scholars researching texts or approaches.

Edited by: Samantha Dressel, Matthew Carter
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781032333359
ISBN 10: 1032333359
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 18 December 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Samantha Dressel is Assistant Professor 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.