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Violence in drama.

Title
Violence in drama.
Publication
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.

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Additional Authors
Redmond, James, M.A.
Description
ix, 318 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Themes in drama, 0263-676X ; 13
Uniform Title
Themes in drama ; 13.
Subject
  • Drama > History and criticism
  • Violence in literature
  • Violence in the theater
  • Théâtre (Genre littéraire) > Histoire et critique
  • Violence au théâtre
  • Violence dans la littérature
  • Violence in the theater
  • Drama
  • Violence in literature
  • Gewalt Motiv
  • Gewalt
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Drama Special subjects Violence
Genre/Form
  • Aufsatzsammlung.
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note
  • Edited by James Redmond.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Credits (note)
  • Series edited by James Redmond.
Contents
  • Uses of violence in drama / Thomas Gould -- Violence in Greek tragedy / Simon Goldhill -- Violence and dramatic structure in Euripides' Hecuba / Charles Segal -- Violence on the street / Richard C. Beacham -- Violence and the social body in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament / Victor I. Scherb -- "There must be blood" / John Spalding Gatton -- Mixed feelings about violence in the Corpus Christi plays / Richard L. Homan -- Shakespearean violence / Jonas Barish -- Cultural disintegration in Titus Andronicus / Heather James -- Racine's Bajazet / Maya Slater -- Grand Guignol and the orchestration of violence / Victor Emeljanow -- Ultimate in theatre violence / John M. Callahan -- Lesbian sexuality and violence in the plays of G.B. Shaw / Ellen Gainor -- Violence as tragic farce in Camus's Caligula / Ben Stoltzfus -- Violence in two plays by Federico García Lorca / Kay García -- Apartheid and primitive blood / Rohan Quince.
  • Streetcar named misogyny / Kathleen Margaret Lant -- Languages of violence / Marcia Blumberg -- Stage violence as thaumaturgic technique / Mary Karen Dahl -- Violation and implication / David Ian Raby -- Mask as sign of violence in contemporary Latin American theatre / Severino João Albuquerque -- 'night Mother and True West / Raynette Halvorsen Smith -- Role of the theatre in Czechoslovakia's "velvet revolution" / Jeremy Adler.
ISBN
  • 0521403553
  • 9780521403559
LCCN
92127098
OCLC
  • ocm26095884
  • 26095884
  • SCSB-1951330
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library