Atrocity and Early Modern Drama

Sarah Johnson is Associate Professor in the department of English, Culture, and Communication at the Royal Military College of Canada. Georgina Lucas is a Lecturer in English Literature at Edinburgh Napier University, UK.

• List of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors1.Georgina Lucas (Independent scholar) and Sarah Johnson (Royal Military College of Canada), 'Introduction'Part One: Typologies2. Sarah Johnson (Royal Military College of Canada), 'War Crimes and Erasure in John Fletcher’s The Tragedy of Bonduca'3. Kirsten Mendoza (University of Dayton, Ohio, USA), 'The Poetics of Violated Property: Rape and Race on the Early Modern Stage'4. Matt Carter (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA), 'Dismemberment, Cannibalism, and Revenge in Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton’s The Bloody Banquet' 5. Jennifer Feather (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA), 'The Merchant of Venice and Environmental Atrocity'6. Catherine Clifford (Graceland University, USA), 'Accidents and Atrocities in the Elizabethan Tournament'Part Two: Performance7. Edel Lamb (Queen’s University, Belfast, UK), '"When the hurly-burly’s done": Shakespeare after the Astor Place Riots'8. Georgina Lucas (Independent Scholar), 'Rwanda and Juliet: Shakespeare and Post-Genocide Reconciliation'9. Ramona Wray (Queen’s University, Belfast, UK), 'Televising Atrocity and The Hollow Crown: Changing Technologies and "Renaissance" Aesthetics'10. Brandi Adams (Arizona State University, USA), '"[S]poyling, slaughter, and sondry torments": Atrocities in Shakespeare’s Henriad and David Michôd and Joel Edgerton’s The King'Part Three: Pedagogy11. Patricia Cahill (Emory University, USA), 'Starting with Witchcraft: Atrocity in the Classroom'12. Matthieu Chapman (State University of New York at New Paltz, USA), 'The Atrocity of Denying Black Being in Shakespearean Performance'13. Nora Williams (University of Essex, UK), 'Disrupting Atrocious Dramaturgies in Measure for Measure'NotesReferencesIndex