Boundaries of Violence in Early Modern England

Samantha Dressel is Assistant Professor in Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Chapman University, USA.Matthew Carter is Assistant Professor of English at Clayton State University, USA.

• Contributor BiographiesAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. The Boundaries of Theatrical ViolenceChapter 2. "Witchy Woman": Reading Women and Occult Power in Popular Literature of Early Modern EnglandChapter 3. The Grotesque Female Body on the Scaffold: The Execution of Annis Bankyn (1590)Chapter 4. "I Will Keepe None of There Bastardes": The Violence of Scarcity in Ben Jonson’s Every Man Out of His HumourChapter 5. "A x to her, slaps her face—she kneels": Violence between the Lines in 2.4 of Measure for MeasureChapter 6. ‘Villains, all three’: Object-led Violence in The Revenger’s TragedyChapter 7. Fool on the Body and Madness on the Mind in John Marston’s Antonio PlaysChapter 8. "Slack in [Neither] Tongue [Nor] Performance": The Duchess’s Maternal Authority and Incestuous Revenge in The Revenger’s TragedyChapter 9. ‘This Stroke for the Most Wronged of Women’: Sexual Coercion and Revenge Violence in The Maid’s TragedyCodaIndex