MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2009043524
003 DLC
005 20100624091944.0
008 091016s2009 enka b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009043524
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020 $a9780230219540
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn298778311
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dYDX$dHLS$dCDX$dYDXCP$dSTF$dGBVCP$dDLC
050 00 $aPR678.S4$bS67 2009
082 00 $a822/.4093552$222
100 1 $aSolga, Kim,$d1974-
245 10 $aViolence against women in early modern performance :$binvisible acts /$cKim Solga.
260 $aBasingstoke, Hampshire, UK ;$aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2009.
300 $axi, 212 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 187-203) and index.
505 8 $aEncounters with the missing: from the invisible act to in/visible acts -- Rape's metatheatrical return: rehearsing sexual violence in Titus Andronicus -- 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.
520 $a"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"--Provided by publisher.
650 0 $aEnglish drama$y17th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aSex crimes in literature.
650 0 $aRape in literature.
650 0 $aAbused women in literature.
650 0 $aViolence in literature.
650 0 $aRape victims in literature.
650 0 $aViolence in the theater.
650 0 $aTheater and society$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century.