Shakespeare's violence and the early modern Spectator /
Shakespeare's plays feature events of extreme violence. Investigating the ways in which the original early modern audiences might have reacted to their scenes of violence, this volume reveals too the complex web of factors that shape our present-day responses to violence and suffering, both on...
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London ; New York :
The Arden Shakespeare,
2026.
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Table of Contents:
- Titus Andronicus: the rape and mutilation of Lavinia
- Cymbeline: the decapitation of Cloten
- King Lear: the blinding of Gloucester
- Othello: the smothering of Desdemona
- Afterword: Shakespeare's violence and the modern spectator.