Atrocity and Early Modern Drama

Sarah Johnson is Associate Professor in the department of English, Culture, and Communication at the Royal Military College of Canada. In addition to her monograph, Staging Women and the Soul-Body Dynamic in Early Modern England (2014), she has published several peer-reviewed articles on early modern drama. Sarah has served as an associate editor of Early Theatre since 2014. Georgina Lucas has taught at the University of Nottingham, UK, The Shakespeare Institute, and Queen’s University, Belfast. Her first monograph – Massacres in Early Modern Drama – is currently in development; she has also published peer-reviewed articles in Early Theatre, The Journal of the British Academy, and Shakespeare. Georgina currently serves as book reviews editor of the peer-reviewed journal Early Theatre.

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Notes on Contributors

1.Georgina Lucas (Independent scholar) and Sarah Johnson (Royal Military College of Canada), 'Introduction'

Part One: Typologies
2. Sarah Johnson (Royal Military College of Canada), 'War Crimes and Erasure in John Fletcher’s The
Tragedy of Bonduca'
3. Kirsten Mendoza (University of Dayton, Ohio, USA), 'The Poetics of Violated Property: Rape and Race on the Early
Modern Stage'
4. Matt Carter (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA), 'Dismemberment, Cannibalism, and Revenge in
Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton’s The Bloody Banquet'
5. Jennifer Feather (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA), 'The Merchant of Venice and Environmental
Atrocity'
6. Catherine Clifford (Graceland University, USA), 'Accidents and Atrocities in the Elizabethan Tournament'

Part Two: Performance
7. Edel Lamb (Queen’s University, Belfast, UK), '"When the hurly-burly’s done": Shakespeare after the Astor Place
Riots'
8. Georgina Lucas (Independent Scholar), 'Rwanda and Juliet: Shakespeare and Post-Genocide Reconciliation'
9. Ramona Wray (Queen’s University, Belfast, UK), 'Televising Atrocity and The Hollow Crown: Changing
Technologies and "Renaissance" Aesthetics'
10. Brandi Adams (Arizona State University, USA), '"[S]poyling, slaughter, and sondry torments": Atrocities in
Shakespeare’s Henriad and David Michôd and Joel Edgerton’s The King'

Part Three: Pedagogy
11. Patricia Cahill (Emory University, USA), 'Starting with Witchcraft: Atrocity in the Classroom'
12. Matthieu Chapman (State University of New York at New Paltz, USA), 'The Atrocity of Denying Black Being in
Shakespearean Performance'
13. Nora Williams (University of Essex, UK), 'Disrupting Atrocious Dramaturgies in Measure for Measure'
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