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Extreme violence scarred the early modern period. Contemporary commentators grappled to find language to categorize the massacres, genocides, assassinations, enslavements, sacks, rapes, riots and regicides that characterized the period. Some used 'outrages', others 'cruelties', but, significantly, the term 'atrocity' that we use today gained the most currency.
Atrocity and Early Modern Drama intervenes in the broad field of violence and early modern drama by placing acts of atrocity at its centre. In doing so, this essay collection offers the first book-length examination of atrocities and early modern English drama. The volume considers atrocity in early theatre, its varied representations in contemporary Shakespeare performance, and strategies for teaching early modern atrocity drama. Contributors introduce us to atrocity in the works of Shakespeare, John Fletcher, William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton across a range of forms including comedy, tragedy, revenge, cinematic adaptation, documentary film and contemporary theatre. The collection addresses the intersections of atrocities through class, crime, gender, race and the natural world. Together, the chapters interrogate how early modern English drama reflects upon and shapes understandings of the historically contingent, politically loaded and culturally contentious phenomena of atrocity.
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1.Georgina Lucas (Independent scholar) and Sarah Johnson (Royal Military College of Canada), 'Introduction'
Part One: Typologies
2. Sarah Johnson (Royal Military College of Canada), 'War Crimes and Erasure in John Fletcher's The
Tragedy of Bonduca'
3. Kirsten Mendoza (University of Dayton, Ohio, USA), 'The Poetics of Violated Property: Rape and Race on the Early
Modern Stage'
4. Matt Carter (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA), 'Dismemberment, Cannibalism, and Revenge in
Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton's The Bloody Banquet'
5. Jennifer Feather (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA), 'The Merchant of Venice and Environmental
Atrocity'
6. Catherine Clifford (Graceland University, USA), 'Accidents and Atrocities in the Elizabethan Tournament'
Part Two: Performance
7. Edel Lamb (Queen's University, Belfast, UK), '"When the hurly-burly's done": Shakespeare after the Astor Place
Riots'
8. Georgina Lucas (Independent Scholar), 'Rwanda and Juliet: Shakespeare and Post-Genocide Reconciliation'
9. Ramona Wray (Queen's University, Belfast, UK), 'Televising Atrocity and The Hollow Crown: Changing
Technologies and "Renaissance" Aesthetics'
10. Brandi Adams (Arizona State University, USA), '"[S]poyling, slaughter, and sondry torments": Atrocities in
Shakespeare's Henriad and David Michôd and Joel Edgerton's The King'
Part Three: Pedagogy
11. Patricia Cahill (Emory University, USA), 'Starting with Witchcraft: Atrocity in the Classroom'
12. Matthieu Chapman (State University of New York at New Paltz, USA), 'The Atrocity of Denying Black Being in
Shakespearean Performance'
13. Nora Williams (University of Essex, UK), 'Disrupting Atrocious Dramaturgies in Measure for Measure'
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