Boundaries of Violence in Early Modern England (Paperback, 1)

Contributor Biographies

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Boundaries of Theatrical Violence

Chapter 2. "Witchy Woman": Reading Women and Occult Power in Popular Literature of Early Modern England

Chapter 3. The Grotesque Female Body on the Scaffold: The Execution of Annis Bankyn (1590)

Chapter 4. "I Will Keepe None of There Bastardes": The Violence of Scarcity in Ben Jonson’s Every Man Out of His Humour

Chapter 5. "A x to her, slaps her face?she kneels": Violence between the Lines in 2.4 of Measure for Measure

Chapter 6. ‘Villains, all three’: Object-led Violence in The Revenger’s Tragedy

Chapter 7. Fool on the Body and Madness on the Mind in John Marston’s Antonio Plays

Chapter 8. "Slack in [Neither] Tongue [Nor] Performance": The Duchess’s Maternal Authority and Incestuous Revenge in The Revenger’s Tragedy

Chapter 9. ‘This Stroke for the Most Wronged of Women’: Sexual Coercion and Revenge Violence in The Maid’s Tragedy

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