Theatre and violence.

Corporate Author: Southeastern Theatre Conference (U.S.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa, AL : Southeastern Theatre Conference and the University of Alabama Press, ©1999.
Series:Theatre symposium : a journal of the Southeastern Theatre Conference, v. 7
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Table of Contents:
  • Sacred wounds : making sense of violence / Nancy Scheper-Hughes
  • Staging violence against women : a long series of replays / Lesley Ferris
  • The scenic ideals of Roman blood spectacles and their role in the development of amphitheatrical space / James Harley
  • Flashing back : dramatizing the trauma of incest and child sexual abuse / Andrea J. Nouryeh
  • The "end" of violence in Northern Ireland : gender, dramaturgy, and the limits of Aristotelian form / John Countryman and Charlotte Headrick
  • The fallacy of contextual analysis as a means of evaluating dramatized violence / J.D. Martinez
  • Listening to the language of violence : the orchestration of sound and silence in fights for the stage and screen / Dale Anthony Girard
  • Figuring the fight : recovering Shakespeare's theatrical swordplay / Colleen Kelly.
  • Postmodern violence and human solidarity : sex and forks in "shopping and fucking" / Leslie A. Wade
  • Spanked to the fringe : lesbian sadomasochism / Jane Barnette
  • Violence at the royal court : Martin McDonagh's "The beauty queen of Leenane" and Mark Ravenhill's "shopping and fucking" / William C. Boles.