ix, 318 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

The uses of violence in drama / Thomas Gould -- Violence in Greek tragedy / Simon Goldhill -- Violence and dramatic structure in Euripides' Hecuba / Charles Segal -- Violence on the street: playing rough in Plautus / Richard C. Beacham -- Violence and the social body in the Croxton Play of the Sacra...

Violence as tragic farce in Camus's Caligula / Ben Stoltzfus -- Violence in two plays by Federico Garcia Lorca / Kay Garcia -- Apartheid and primitive blood: violence in Afrikaans Shakespeare productions / Rohan Quince -- A streetcar named misogyny / Kathleen Margaret Lant -- Languages of violence:...