Shakespeare's Violated Bodies

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Shakespeare's Violated Bodies is written by Pascale Aebischer and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521829356 (ISBN 10) and 9780521829359 (ISBN 13).

This fascinating study looks at the violation of bodies in Shakespeare's tragedies, especially as revealed (or concealed) in performance on stage and screen. Pascale Aebischer discusses stage and screen performances of Titus Andronicus, Hamlet, Othello and King Lear with a view to showing how bodies which are virtually absent from both playtexts and critical discourse (due to silence, disability, marginalisation, racial otherness or death) can be prominent in performance, where their representation reflects the cultural and political climate of the production.