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Author
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Date published
2009
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Publisher
Farnham : Ashgate, 2009.
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Subject
English drama 17th century History and criticism
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Accession number
8343870X
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Class
10/STA
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ISBN
9780754667582 (hbk.), 0754667588 (hbk.)
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Language
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Physical description
xii, 220 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Bibliography, etc. note: Includes bibliographical references and index. Formatted contents note: ch. 5:Radical pity: responding to spectacles of violence in King Lear / John D. Staines -- ch. 8:Lavinia's rape: reading the Restoration actress's body in pain in Ravenscroft's Titus / Kara Reilly. UK-SuSCL Summary, etc: From the often brutal spectacle of late medieval mystery plays to early Romantic re-evaluations of 18th-century appropriations of spectacles of pain, these essays take up the significance of these watershed moments in British theatre and expand on recent work treating bodies in pain. Target audience: Specialized.