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