Mathew R Martin: 2 books
by Mathew R. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
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...
Staging Pain, 1580–1800
Violence and Trauma in British Theater
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
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...