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Rape’S Metatheatrical Return: Rehearsing Sexual Violence Among The Early Moderns, Kim Solga Feb 2006

Rape’S Metatheatrical Return: Rehearsing Sexual Violence Among The Early Moderns, Kim Solga

Kim Solga

What happens when theatre crosses the line, risks danger in the real? This paper explores the pernicious theatricalization of sexual violence in early modern England, its trouble-making uptake in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, and Julie Taymor's contemporary response in her 1999 film version of the play. Along the way the article probes a handful of questions about theatre's social efficacy: what are the consequences of understanding theatre as a potentially malevolent form of public art and expression? How do we account for those moments when theatre poses genuine risk? And, more importantly, how do we build a response to, an ethics …


Pornography, The Theory: What Utilitarianism Did To Action, By Frances Ferguson, Samantha Brennan Dec 2005

Pornography, The Theory: What Utilitarianism Did To Action, By Frances Ferguson, Samantha Brennan

Samantha Brennan

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