Rape on the Contemporary Stage

• Main Author: Fitzpatrick, Lisa (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Theater.; Performing arts.; Sex and law.; Contemporary Theatre.; Performing Arts.; Gender, Sexuality and Law.

This book investigates the representation of rape in British and Irish theatre since the second wave of the Women's Movement. Mainly focusing on the period from the 1990s to the present, it identifies key feminist debates on rape and gender, and introduces a set of ideas about the function of r...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Rape on the Naturalistic Stage: the example of Miss Julie
• 3. Women Playwrights: Subverting Representational Strategies
• 4. The Body of a Woman as a Battlefield: Rape and Conflict
• 5. Eroticism, Vulnerability, and Affect
• 6. In Extremis: Staging Rape in the 2010s
• 7. Conclusion.