The Rise And Fall Of Rape On The English Stage

Author : Anne Greenfield
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040102549
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Rape on the English Stage written by Anne Greenfield and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-19 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines one of the most pervasive and successful dramatic tropes of the Restoration and early eighteenth century: sexual violence. During this sixty-year span, there were over fifty tragic and tragi-comedic productions that showcased rape and/or attempted rape—a remarkable number that was unprecedented in English dramatic history. Rape was not merely depicted more frequently during the Restoration, but it was also placed at the center of more plots, given more pathetic emphasis, and even staged more centrally. Restoration dramatists were the first to revolve routinely entire plots around the rapes of their innocent heroines, to give powerful voices to these heroines post-rape, and to imbue their sexually violent scenes with new and attention-getting staging techniques, such as discovery scenes. As this book argues, sexual violence emerged at this time as a highly flexible dramatic trope that could be used to illustrate terrifying political scenarios, elicit extreme pathos in audiences, and demonstrate the bearing that lost chastity had on social stability. It is precisely the rich, multi-faceted appeal of these productions—politically, sexually, visually, and culturally—that explains the popularity and significance of this dramatic trope on the English stage. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in Restoration, eighteenth-century studies, and theatre and performance studies.

Author : Anne Greenfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781032676999
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Rape on the English Stage, 1660-1720 written by Anne Greenfield and published by . This book was released on 2025 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines one of the most pervasive and successful dramatic tropes of the Restoration and early eighteenth century: sexual violence. During this sixty-year span, there were over fifty tragic and tragi-comedic productions that showcased rape and/or attempted rape-a remarkable number that was unprecedented in English dramatic history. Rape was not merely depicted more frequently during the Restoration, but it was also placed at the center of more plots, given more pathetic emphasis, and even staged more centrally. Restoration dramatists were the first to revolve routinely entire plots around the rapes of their innocent heroines, to give powerful voices to these heroines' post-rape, and to imbue their sexually violent scenes with new and attention-getting staging techniques, like discovery scenes. As this book argues, sexual violence emerged at this time as a highly flexible dramatic trope that could be used to illustrate terrifying political scenarios, to elicit extreme pathos in audiences, and to demonstrate the bearing lost chastity had on social stability. It is precisely the rich, multi-faceted appeal of these productions-politically, sexually, visually, and culturally-that explains the popularity and significance of this exceptional dramatic trope on the English stage. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in Restoration, eighteenth-century studies, and theatre & performance studies"--

Author : Lisa Peck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040092853
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Acting Pedagogy written by Lisa Peck and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Acting Pedagogy: Intersectional Approaches invites readers to think about pedagogy in actor training as a research field in its own right: to sit with the complex challenges, risks, and rewards of the acting studio; to recognise the shared vulnerability, courage, and love that defines our field and underpins our practices. This collection of chapters, from a diverse group of acting teachers at different points in their careers, working in conservatoires and universities, illuminates current developments in decolonising studios to foreground multiple and intersecting identities in the pedagogic exchange. In acknowledging how their positionality affects their practices and materials, 20 acting teachers from the United Kingdom, the United States, Europe, and Oceania offer practical tools for the social justice acting classroom, with rich insights for developing critical acting pedagogies. Authors test and develop research approaches, drawn from social sciences, to tackle dominant ideologies in organisation, curriculum, and methodologies of actor training. This collection frames current efforts to promote equality, diversity, and inclusivity in the studio. It contributes to the collective movement to improve current educational practice in acting, prioritising well-being, and centering the student experience.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical account of the English stage. Farther account of the rise and progress of the English stage written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edmond Malone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the English Stage written by Edmond Malone and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical account of the rise and progress of the English stage. Emendations and additions written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1794 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kathryn Lowerre
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351557610
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Music and Musicians on the London Stage, 1695?705 " written by Kathryn Lowerre and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1695 to 1705, rival London theater companies based at Drury Lane and Lincoln's Inn Fields each mounted more than a hundred new productions while reviving stock plays by authors such as Shakespeare and Dryden. All included music. Kathryn Lowerre charts the interactions of the two companies from a musical perspective, emphasizing each company's new productions and their respective musical assets, including performers, composers, and musical materials. Lowerre also provides rich analysis of the relationship of music to genres including comedy, dramatick opera, and musical tragedy, and explores the migration of music from theater to theater, performer to performer, and from stage to street and back again. As Lowerre persuasively demonstrates, during this period, all theater was musical theater.

Author : Victor Bailey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429663889
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Rehabilitative Ideal, 1895-1970 written by Victor Bailey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning almost a century of penal policy and practice in England and Wales, this book is a study of the long arc of the rehabilitative ideal, beginning in 1895, the year of the Gladstone Committee on Prisons, and ending in 1970, when the policy of treating and training criminals was very much on the defensive. Drawing on a plethora of source material, such as the official papers of mandarins, ministers, and magistrates, measures of public opinion, prisoner memoirs, publications of penal reform groups and prison officers, the reports of Royal Commissions and Departmental Committees, political opinion in both Houses of Parliament and the research of the first cadre of criminologists, this book comprehensively examines a number of aspects of the British penal system, including judicial sentencing, law-making, and the administration of legal penalties. In doing so, Victor Bailey expertly weaves a complex and nuanced picture of punishment in twentieth-century England and Wales, one that incorporates the enduring influence of the death penalty, and will force historians to revise their interpretation of twentieth-century social and penal policy. This detailed and ground-breaking account of the rise and fall of the rehabilitative ideal will be essential reading for scholars and students of the history of crime and justice and historical criminology, as well as those interested in social and legal history.

Author : Emma Depledge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108427103
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Rise to Cultural Prominence written by Emma Depledge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that the Exclusion Crisis of 1678-82 should be considered the watershed moment in Shakespeare's authorial afterlife.

Author : Paul Salzman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443823627
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Expanding the Canon of Early Modern Women’s Writing written by Paul Salzman and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-12 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting collection of original essays on early modern women’s writing offers a range of approaches to a growing field. As a whole, the volume introduces readers to a number of writers, such as Mirabai and Liu Rushi, who are virtually invisible in Anglophone scholarship, and to writers who remain little known, such as Elizabeth Melville, Elizabeth Hatton, and Jane Sharpe. The volume also represents critical strategies designed to open up the emergent canon of early modern women’s writing to new approaches, especially those that have consolidated the integration of literary and intellectual history, with an emphasis on religion, legal issues, and questions of genre. The authors expand the methodological possibilities available to approach early modern women who wrote in a diverse number of genres, from letters to poetry, autobiography and prose fiction. The sixteen essays are a major contribution to an area that has attracted the interest of a number of fields, including literary studies, history, cultural studies, and women’s studies.