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UNINA9910154611603321 |
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Titolo |
Staging pain, 1580-1800 : violence and trauma in British theater / / edited by James Robert Allard and Mathew R. Martin |
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Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
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ISBN |
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1-351-89821-3 |
1-315-24249-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrations |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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AllardJames Robert |
MartinMathew R. <1970-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Theater - Great Britain - History |
Violence in the theater |
Pain in literature |
Theater and society - Great Britain |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. 1. Traumatic effects -- pt. 2. Pedagogies of pain -- pt. 3. Bodies (im)politic -- pt. 4. Spectacular failures. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Bookending the chronology of this collection are two crucial moments in the histories of pain, trauma, and their staging in British theater: the establishment of secular and professional theater in London in the 1580s, and the growing dissatisfaction with theatrical modes of public punishment alongside the increasing efficacy of staging extravagant spectacles at the end of the eighteenth century. From the often brutal spectacle of late medieval mystery plays to early Romantic re-evaluations of eighteenth-century appropriations of spectacles of pain, the essays take up the significance of these watershed moments in British theater and expand on recent work treating bodies in pain: what and how pain means, how such meaning can be embodied, how such embodiment can be dramatized, and how such dramatizations can be put to use and made meaningful in a variety of contexts. Grouped thematically, the essays interrogate individual plays and important topics in terms of the volume's overriding concerns, among them Tamburlaine and The Maid's Tragedy, revenge tragedy, Joshua Reynolds |
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on public executions, King Lear, Settle's Moroccan plays, spectacles of injury, torture, and suffering, and Joanna Baillie's Plays on the Passions. Collectively, these essays make an important contribution to the increasingly interrelated histories of pain, the body, and the theater. |
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