:<i>Shakespeare's Violated Bodies: Stage and Screen Performance</i>

Abstract

Prologue: The Gravedigger's daughter - a story of loss Introduction: filling the empty space 1. Titus Andronicus: spectacular obscenities 2. 'Not dead? not yet quite dead?': Hamlet's unruly corpses 3. Murderous male moors: gazing at race in Titus Andronicus and Othello 4. En-gendering violence and suffering in King Lear Epilogue: Polly goes to Hollywood - a success story Appendix: Main productions cited Bibliography Index.