Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography compiled by Stefan Blaschke |
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Representations: Literary Texts: »Thomas Heywood (early 1570s - 16 August 1641) was an English playwright, actor, and author. His main contributions were to late Elizabethan and early Jacobean theatre. He is best known for his masterpiece A Woman Killed with Kindness, a domestic tragedy, which was first performed in 1603 at the Rose Theatre by the Worcester's Men company. He was a prolific writer, claiming to have had "an entire hand or at least a maine finger in two hundred and twenty plays", although only a fraction of his work has survived.« -- More information: Wikipedia Edward IV (History play, 1599) »Edward IV, Parts 1 and 2 is a two-part Elizabethan history play centring on the personal life of King Edward IV of England. It was published without an author's name attached, but is often attributed to Thomas Heywood, perhaps writing with collaborators.« -- More information: Wikipedia Chronological Index: Modern History: 16th Century | Geographical Index: European History: English History I. Author Index [Info] Arab, Ronda. »Sexual Violence as Class Conflict: Seizing Patriarchal Privilege in Early Modern English Drama.« Intersectionalities of Class in Early Modern English Drama. Edited by Ronda Arab et al. Cham 2023: 249-264. II. Speaker Index - The Rape of Lucrece (Tragedy, 1608) Chronological Index: Modern History: 17th Century | Geographical Index: European History: English History | Topical Index: Types: General: Rape I. Author Index [Info] Bamford, Karen. Sexual Violence on the Jacobean Stage. Basingstoke 2000. [Info] Bretz, Andrew. Emergent Identity: Masculinity and the Representation of Rape on the Early Modern Stage, 1590-1620. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Guelph, 2012. [Info] Detmar-Goebel, Emily. »What more could woman do? Dramatizing consent in Heywood's Rape of Lucrece and Middleton's Women Beware Women.« Women's Studies 36 (2007): 141-159. II. Speaker Index [Info] Rizzi, James. »Lucrece's Body Embodied: The Site of Negation in Thomas Heywood's The Rape of Lucrece.« 48th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association. Baltimore 2017. A Woman Killed With Kindness (Tragedy, 1603) »A Woman Killed with Kindness is an early seventeenth-century stage play, a tragedy written by Thomas Heywood. Acted in 1603 and first published in 1607, the play has generally been considered Heywood's masterpiece, and has received the most critical attention among Heywood's works. Along with the anonymous Arden of Faversham, Heywood's play has been regarded as the apex of Renaissance drama's achievement in the subgenre of bourgeois or domestic tragedy.« -- More information: Wikipedia Chronological Index: Modern History: 17th Century | Geographical Index: European History: English History I. Author Index [Info] Solga, Kim. Invisible Acts: Performing Violence Against Women in Early Modern and Contemporary Drama in English. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2004. [Info] Solga, Kim. Invisible acts. Witnessing violence against women in early modern performance. Basingstoke 2009. II. Speaker Index - |