Title: Violence in drama.
Authors: Redmond, James,
Date: 1991
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Physical description: ix, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: P
Contents: Uses of violence in drama / Thomas Gould -- Violence in Greek tragedy / Simon Goldhill -- Violence and dramatic structure in Euripides' Hecuba / Charles Segal -- Violence on the street / Richard C. Beacham -- Violence and the social body in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament / Victor I. Scherb -- "There must be blood" / John Spalding Gatton -- Mixed feelings about violence in the Corpus Christi plays / Richard L. Homan -- Shakespearean violence / Jonas Barish -- Cultural disintegration in Titus Andronicus / Heather James -- Racine's Bajazet / Maya Slater -- Grand Guignol and the orchestration of violence / Victor Emeljanow -- Ultimate in theatre violence / John M. Callahan -- Lesbian sexuality and violence in the plays of G.B. Shaw / Ellen Gainor -- Violence as tragic farce in Camus's Caligula / Ben Stoltzfus -- Violence in two plays by Federico García Lorca / Kay García -- Apartheid and primitive blood / Rohan Quince. Streetcar named misogyny / Kathleen Margaret Lant -- Languages of violence / Marcia Blumberg -- Stage violence as thaumaturgic technique / Mary Karen Dahl -- Violation and implication / David Ian Raby -- Mask as sign of violence in contemporary Latin American theatre / Severino João Albuquerque -- 'night Mother and True West / Raynette Halvorsen Smith -- Role of the theatre in Czechoslovakia's "velvet revolution" / Jeremy Adler.
Notes: Edited by James Redmond.
Subject headings (LCSH): Drama--History and criticism; Violence in drama.; Violence in literature.; Violence in the theater.