Horror on the Early Modern Stage
The Arden Shakespeare (Verlag)
978-1-350-55370-5 (ISBN)
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Early modern English theatre provides countless examples of the tropes and feelings we associate with the horror genre. Depictions of obscenity and violence designed to elicit a mixture of loathing, fear, repugnance, shock, awe, and desire in their audiences abound, from the bodily mutilations of Titus Andronicus, to the demonic, ghostly, and psychological terrors of Macbeth and Hamlet, to the sensory shocks of torture and imprisonment within The Duchess of Malfi. This collection of essays argues that the horror genre as we know it should be extended back to the 16th century to include classic early modern plays from Romeo and Juliet to The Duchess of Malfi.
Contributors plot a new theory of horror through its roots as a conscious and complex generic mode in the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century. Drawing together essays on topics such as bodily torture and experimentation, necrophilia and decomposition, psychological and supernatural torment, scholars critically engage with categories such as tragedy, comedy, parody, and folk horror. The volume offers new interpretations of both famous and obscure early modern plays, and places them in conversation with contemporary horror films like Midsommar, The Wicker Man, Evil Dead II, and the works of David Cronenberg, providing a new route into the burgeoning field of early modern horror for scholars and students.
Sheila Coursey is Assistant Professor of English, Saint Louis University, USA. Hannah Korell is Assistant Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Platteville, USA.
Introduction: Nightmares on Thames Street
Sheila Coursey (Saint Louis University, USA) & Hannah Korell (University of Wisconsin-Platteville, USA)
Part 1: Playing with Tragedy
“O wife, look how our daughter bleeds”: Recovering the Horror of Romeo and Juliet
Paul Budra (Simon Fraser University, USA)
From Hell’s Frame of Mind to Hecate’s Invocation: Aesthetic and Affective Registers of Horror in Doctor Faustus and Macbeth
Ani Govjian (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
“So Bad It’s Good?”: The Tragedy of Hoffman and 1980s Low-Budget Horror Films
M.G. Aune (Pennsylvania Western University, USA) & Cara Popovich (Row House Cinema)
Part 2: Affective & Bodily Horrors
Hamlet’s “Eternal Blazon” as Contagious Horror
Khristian Smith (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
Putting Lips on a Skull and Skin on a Ghost: The Problem with Re-fleshing Corpses in Hamlet
Chelsea Lee (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Boxes of Wormseed and Paper Prisons: Bodies, Horror, and Imprisonment in The Duchess of Malfi
Charlotte Thurston (CUNY Graduate Center, USA)
“Thou art a dead thing”: Body and Spirit in The Duchess of Malfi and The Second Maid’s Tragedy
James Rizzi (Canisius University, USA)
Part 3: Transtemporal Approaches
Bloody Banquets: A Case Study in Body Horror Titus Andronicus and The Vienna Action Group
Amanda DiPonio (Huron University College, USA)
“Long live the New Flesh!”: Origins of Body Horror in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Early Films of David Cronenberg
Victoria McMahon (Independent Scholar)
“A Midsommar Nightmare”
Jessica Walker (University of North Georgia, USA)
Epilogue: “Folk Horror’s Obsession with the Early Modern World”
Gregory Colón Semenza (University of Connecticut, USA)
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 23.7.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 2 b/w |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-55370-0 / 1350553700 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-55370-5 / 9781350553705 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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