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Author Burks, Deborah G., 1963-

Title Horrid spectacle : violation in the theater of early modern England / Deborah G. Burks.

Publication Info. Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, [2003]
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 Moore Stacks  PR658.S4 B87 2003    Available  ---
Description viii, 456 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Medieval & Renaissance literary studies
Medieval and Renaissance literary studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Pt. I. Acts and monuments of violation -- Spectacles of violation: enacting the witness of word and woodcut -- "Find out this abuse": virgin-violators and sheep-biters in Measure for measure -- "Break ... all the bounds of manhood, noblesse and religion": George Chapman's Bussy D'Ambois -- pt. II. Ravishing the subject's masculinity -- "I'le want my will else": the rhetoric of rape and rights -- Arbella Stuart Seymour: "this unadvised young woman ... so wilfully bent" -- "This sight doth shake all that is man within me": sexual violation and the rhetoric of dissent in The cardinal -- pt. III. Renegotiating the rhetoric of abusive sexuality -- Margaret Cavendish and the regicidal historiographers: chastizing the royal will -- Boiling passions, bloody hearts, horrid spectacle: Dryden's conquest of England for the Stuarts -- "Willing rape is all the fashion": partisan politics and unruly sexuality in Aphra Behn's The city heiress.
Subject English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.
Sex crimes in literature.
Sex crimes in literature.
Christianity and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.
Christianity and literature.
Great Britain.
History.
Chronological Term 16th century
Subject Christianity and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
Chronological Term 17th century
Subject Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.
Politics and literature.
Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
English drama.
Rape victims in literature.
Rape victims in literature.
Women in literature.
Women in literature.
Rape in literature.
Rape in literature.
ISBN 0820703419 acid-free paper

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