Anne Hermanson

The Horror Plays of the English Restoration

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Produktbeschreibung

Tropes of monstrosity, madness, venereal disease, incest and atheism define a group of macabre plays which burst onto the London stage in the 1670s. Dubbed the 'horror' or the 'blood and torture villain tragedies' by modern critics, these deeply unsettling plays fascinated contemporary audiences. Hermanson's study marks the first comprehensive investigation of the plays, examining them in light of significant changes to theatrical practice as well as the endemic civil conflict of the time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781472415523
• ISBN-10: 1472415523
• Artikelnr.: 41852915

Autorenporträt

Anne Hermanson is an Associate Lecturer in Shakespeare and Children's Literature at The Open University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1 Horror and Spectacle
2 Memory, Re-enactment and Trauma
3 Monstrous Women: Aphra Behn's Abdelazer; or, The Moor's Revenge and
Elkanah Settle's The Empress of Morocco
4 Degenerate Rulers: Nathaniel Lee's The Tragedy of Nero and The Rival
Queens
5 Patrilineal Discord: Nathaniel Lee and John Dryden's Oedipus and Thomas
Otway's Don Carlos
6 Forsaken Justice: Thomas Shadwell's The Libertine and the Early of
Rochester's Lucina's Rape Or the Tragedy of Vallentinian