Title: Sexual violence on the Jacobean stage
Description: "The first book-length study of its subject, Sexual Violence on the Jacobean Stage examines the representation of rape and attempted rape in a wide range of plays by Shakespeare, Fletcher, Heywood, Middleton, and their contemporaries.

Situating the dramas' contradictory and powerful discourses of chastity in the context of Christian hagiography and classical legend, Bamford discusses the construction of sexual assault as sacrifice and spectacle, as threat and stimulus to male bonds, as redemptive and destructive of the victim's community."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: English drama, History and criticism, Rape in literature, Rape victims in literature, Sex crimes in literature, Violence in literature, Women in literature
Time periods: 17th century