The furor and public outrage surrounding the release of a fictionalized video in which naked
women are hunted down and shot with paintball guns (" Hunting for Bambi") inspired this …

Revenge tragedies are filled with trial scenes, miscarriages of justice and untrustworthy
evidence, yet this is the first study to explore how the revenge plays of Kyd, Shakespeare …

This book explores a neglected feature of intellectual history and literature in the early
modern period: the ways in which the body was theorized and represented as an intelligent …

Blood sport—the practice of pitting animals against each other (or against humans) in
bloody combat to the death—is a tragic form of human entertainment that has been resilient …

Abstract In Titus (1999), Julie Taymore makes obvious use of anachronisms (motorcycles,
pinball machines, ziploc baggies). Rather than being gratuitous, this paper argues that these …

The early modern English theater abounds with sights that were prepared, designed, and
built to be seen. Playwrights conjured evocative and terrifying spectacles for their …

The phrase suum cuique as an incarnation of “justice,” like many other Latin dicta, is deeply
enrooted in the mental consciousness of mankind, and it lives its own life as a part of the so …

This dissertation investigates the surprising strategy by which early modern English drama
explored its own status as mimesis: the simulation of the very punitive spectacles taking …

Di Ponio considers the sources of dramatic cruelty with a focus on theatre and the double
influence of Seneca, both on Antonin Artaud and on early modern dramatists, to whom …

Although scholars have written extensively about madness and metadrama, they have rarely
discussed the relationship between the two on the early modern stage. In many plays …