Title: The politics of rape : sexual atrocity, propaganda wars, and the Restoration stage /
Authors: Airey, Jennifer L., 1980-
Publisher: University of Delaware Press ; Rowman & Littlefield,
Year: 2012
Subjects: English drama History and criticism; Rape in literature.; Rape victims in literature.; Violence in literature.; Politics and literature England History; Theater Political aspects England History; Propaganda, British History
Abstract: Beginning with the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 and concluding with reactions to the accession of William and Mary, The Politics of Rape is the first full-length study to examine theatrical representations of sexual violence in the latter-half of the seventeenth century. The study gathers and catalogues a wealth of previously unexplored pamphlet tracts to provide a new reading of dramatic sexual violence, one that accounts for the interplay between propaganda culture and the British stage.
Contents: Introduction -- Rape and the rehabilitation of royalist identity, 1660-65 -- Rape and the roots of discontent, 1666-77 -- Lucrece narratives: Rochester, Lee, and the ethics of regicide -- Rape and the cannibal father, 1678-87 -- Rape in the aftermath of revolution: images of male rape, 1688-99.