Performing early modern trauma from Shakespeare to Milton / Thomas P. Anderson

Author:: Anderson, Thomas Page, 1968-
Published:: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2006]
Copyright Date:: ©2006
Physical Description:: viii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents:

Introduction : performing trauma -- Reading martyred history in Titus Andronicus -- Richard II and the politics of murder -- Edward II and the aesthetics of survival -- The art of playing dead in revenge tragedy -- Representing regicide : royal death and Renaissance distraction.

Subject(s):

English literature—Early modern, 1500-1700—History and criticism
History in literature
Literature and history—Great Britain
Literature and history—Great Britain—History—17th century
Historical drama, English—History and criticism
English drama (Tragedy)—History and criticism
Loss (Psychology) in literature
Psychic trauma in literature
Regicides in literature
Violence in literature
Murder in literature
Death in literature

ISBN:

0754655644 (alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-219) and index.

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