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Staging Pain, 1580–1800

Violence and Trauma in British Theater

By: Mathew R. Martin

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Staging Pain, 1580–1800

Violence and Trauma in British Theater

By: Mathew R. Martin

Bookending the chronology of this collection are two crucial moments in the histories of pain, trauma, and their staging in British theater: the establishment of secular and professional theater in London in the 1580s, and the growing dissatisfaction with theatrical modes of public punishment alongside the increasing efficacy of staging extravagant spectacles at the end of the eighteenth century. From the often brutal spectacle of late medieval mystery plays to early Romantic re-evaluations of eighteenth-century appropriations of spectacles of pain, the essays take up the significance of these watershed moments in British theater and expand on recent work treating bodies in pain: what and how pain means, how such meaning can be embodied, how such embodiment can be dramatized, and how such dramatizations can be put to use and made meaningful in a variety of contexts. Grouped thematically, the essays interrogate individual plays and important topics in terms of the volume's overriding concerns, among them Tamburlaine and The Maid's Tragedy, revenge tragedy, Joshua Reynolds on public executions, King Lear, Settle's Moroccan plays, spectacles of injury, torture, and suffering, and Joanna Baillie's Plays on the Passions. Collectively, these essays make an important contribution to the increasingly interrelated histories of pain, the body, and the theater.

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Routledge

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1351898213

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9781351898218

Tragedy and Trauma in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe

By: Mathew R. Martin

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Tragedy and Trauma in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe

By: Mathew R. Martin

Contending that criticism of Marlowe’s plays has been limited by humanist conceptions of tragedy, this book engages with trauma theory, especially psychoanalytic trauma theory, to offer a fresh critical perspective within which to make sense of the tension in Marlowe’s plays between the tragic and the traumatic. The author argues that tragedies are trauma narratives, narratives of wounding; however, in Marlowe’s plays, a traumatic aesthetics disrupts the closure that tragedy seeks to enact. Martin’s fresh reading of Massacre at Paris, which is often dismissed by critics as a bad tragedy, presents the play as deliberately breaking the conventions of the tragic genre in order to enact a traumatic aesthetics that pulls its audience into one of the early modern period’s most notorious collective traumatic events, the massacre of French Huguenots in Paris in 1572. The chapters on Marlowe’s six other plays similarly argue that throughout Marlowe’s drama tragedy is held in tension with-and disrupted by-the aesthetics of trauma.

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1317008375

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9781317008378

Between Theater and Philosophy

Skepticism in the Major City Comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton

By: Mathew R. Martin

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Between Theater and Philosophy

Skepticism in the Major City Comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton

By: Mathew R. Martin

Between Theater and Philosophy studies the aggressive, restless, and critical skepticism of the major city comedies of early modern English dramatists Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton. The book places the city comedies in the context of the battle between theater and philosophy declared by Plato's expulsion of theater from his ideal republic."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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204

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University of Delaware Press

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087413739X

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9780874137392

Psychoanalysis and Literary Theory

An Introduction

By: Mathew R. Martin

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Psychoanalysis and Literary Theory

An Introduction

By: Mathew R. Martin

Psychoanalysis and Literary Theory introduces the key concepts, figures and movements of both psychoanalytic theory and the history of literary criticism and theory, engaging with Freud, Zizek, Plato, posthumanism, and beyond. Divided into two parts - concepts and movements – the structure of the book is clear and accessible. Each chapter builds upon the one before, allowing the reader to progress from little or no background in psychoanalysis, philosophy, or literary theory to the ability to engage actively with the relatively sophisticated ideas presented in later sections of the work. Mathew R. Martin consistently directs attention to the task of interpreting texts by illustrating abstract theoretical points with literary texts and at apposite moments provides brief readings of selected texts. This book will be essential reading for academics and students of psychoanalytic studies, literary criticism, and literary theory.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000638359

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9781000638356

Tragedy and Trauma in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe

By: Mathew R. Martin

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1317008383

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Staging Pain, 1580–1800

Staging Pain, 1580–1800

Tragedy and Trauma in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe

Tragedy and Trauma in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe

Between Theater and Philosophy

Between Theater and Philosophy

Psychoanalysis and Literary Theory

Psychoanalysis and Literary Theory

Tragedy and Trauma in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe

Tragedy and Trauma in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe

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