Theatre Symposium, Vol. 7: Theatre and Violence
edited by John W. Frick
University of Alabama Press, 1999
Paper: 978-0-8173-0998-5
TOC
- 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
- Boles, William C.
- Contributors
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