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Unto the Breach
Martial Formations, Historical Trauma, and the Early Modern Stage
Patricia A. Cahill
240 pages
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12 halftones
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234x156mm
978-0-19-921205-7
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Hardback
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13 November 2008
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- One of the first studies of Renaissance literature to engage with the field of contemporary trauma theory
- Brings lesser read dramas into conversation with canonical texts
- Examines military texts usually neglected by literary scholars and cultural critics
- Explores the culture's gendering of warfare
The Elizabethan theatrical repertory was enthralled with the era's martial discourses and beset by its blinding visions. In her richly historicized account of the theater's engagement with 'modern' warfare, Patricia Cahill juxtaposes the new military technologies and new modes of martial abstraction with the performance of war-suffused dramas by Shakespeare, Marlowe, and their contemporaries. Equally important, she shows that even as early-modern playwrights engaged cutting-edge military practices, they routinely trafficked in phenomena resistant to the new rationalities, conjuring up a domain of eerie sounds, uncanny figures, and haunted temporalities.
By going beyond the usual protocols of historicist criticism and emphasizing the complex dynamics of theatrical modes of address, this wide-ranging study investigates the representation of early-modern war trauma and recovers for us a compelling sense of the intimate relationship between affect and intellect on the Renaissance stage. Intervening in ongoing conversations about the drama's role in shaping the cultural imaginary, Unto the Breach shows that, in an era of escalating militarization, England's first commercial theaters offered their audiences something of incalculable value - namely, a space for the performance and 'working through' of what might otherwise remain psychically unbearable in war's violence.Readership:
Literary scholars and students interested in early modern drama and theatre history; historians and students of early modern England, especially those interested in military history; scholars working in the intersection of literature and psychoanalysis
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Patricia A. Cahill, Assistant Professor, Emory University
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"engagingly written" - Goran Stanivukovic, Times Literary Supplement
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Introduction
1: Martial Formations: Marlowe's Theater of Abstraction in Tamburlaine, Parts 1 and 2
2: Spare Men and Great Ones: Musters, Norms, and the Average Man in Shakespeare's 1 and 2 Henry IV
3: Biopower in the English Pale: Generation and Genocide in King Edward III
4: Atrocity in Arcadia: Wounds, Women, and the Face of Trauma in The Trial of Chivalry
5: Wound-Man Walking: Visceral History andTraumatized Bodies in Alarum for London
Epilogue: Dreadful Marches: Traumatic Time and Space in Shakespeare's Richard III
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