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Theatre Symposium, Vol. 7: Theatre and Violence
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 7: Theatre and Violence
edited by John W. Frick
University of Alabama Press, 1999 Paper: 978-0-8173-0998-5
TOC
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Introduction
PART I:
Culture and Violence
Sacred Wounds: Making Sense of Violence
Scheper-Hughes,
Nancy
PART II:
Rhetorical and Historical Perspectives
Staging Violence against Women: A Long Series of Replays
Ferris,
Lesley
The Scenic Ideals of Roman Blood Spectacles and Their Role in the Development of Amphitheatrical Space
Harley,
James
Flashing Back: Dramatizing the Trauma of Incest and Child Sexual Abuse
Andrea,
J. Nouryeh
The “End” of Violence in Northern Ireland: Gender, Dramaturgy, and the Limits of Aristotelian Form
Countryman,
John
Headrick,
Charlotte
PART III:
Staging Violence
The Fallacy of Contextual Analysis as a Means of Evaluating Dramatized Violence
Martinez,
J. D.
Listening to the Language of Violence: The Orchestration of Sound and Silence in Fights for the Stage and Screen
Girard,
Dale Anthony
Figuring the Fight: Recovering Shakespeare's Theatrical Swordplay
Kelly,
Colleen
PART IV:
Violence on the Fringes of Acceptability
Postmodern Violence and Human Solidarity: Sex and Forks in Shopping and Fucking
Wade,
Leslie A.
Spanked to the Fringe: Lesbian Sadomasochism
Barnette,
Jane
Violence at the Royal Court: Martin McDonagh's The Beauty Queen of Leenane and Mark Ravenhill's Shopping and Fucking