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Horrid Spectacle
Deborah G. Burks
其他書名
Violation in the Theater of Early Modern England
出版Duquesne University Press, 2003
主題Drama / GeneralDrama / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshHistory / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714)Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / Ancient & ClassicalLiterary Criticism / DramaLiterary Criticism / RenaissanceLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / PoliticsLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / WomenPerforming Arts / Theater / GeneralReligion / Christianity / Literature & the ArtsReligion / Christianity / HistoryReligion / Christian Church / HistorySocial Science / CriminologyTrue Crime / Sexual Assault
ISBN08207034199780820703411
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=d98KAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In early modern England, scenes of torture, murder, and infidelity were often graphically depicted on the stage. In this study, Burks examines the trope of violation in the theater of early modern England and explores the connections between these theatrical representations and the use of violation imagery in a range of other public and private discourses. Her analysis encompasses texts such as Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, Aphra Behn's The City Heiress, Arbella Stuart Seymour's letters, and Margaret Cavendish's fiction and drama. This study of violation, one of the most potent, ubiquitous, and durable tropes of the English Reformation, explores the connections between these theatrical representations and the use of violation imagery in a range of public and private discourses, from Protestant polemic, parliamentary legislation and political pamphlets, to aristocratic letters, royalist fiction and "regicidal" histories. Burks considers private and political writing alongside literary texts; the disparate motives, modes of address and methods of transmission of each type of writing thus serve as foils for one another. Burks also places women writers in the company of their male peers without segregating or prioritizing either gender group.