{"product_id":"9781526147318","title":"Massacres in Early Modern Drama","description":"Author: Georgina Lucas\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781526147318\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Jun 2026\u003cbr\u003ePages: 298 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMassacres in Early Modern Drama\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eanalyses the dynamically ambivalent meanings constructed by the language and action of massacre on the early modern stage.\u003c\/b\u003e Informed by theories drawn from massacre studies, the monograph challenges orthodoxies about senseless violence, illuminates archaic forms of massacres, and attests to their brutally diverse stage representations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnchored by the contention that the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre in Paris (1572) was instrumental to early modern understandings of massacre, the book uses this atrocity, and its most famous dramatic depiction  Christopher Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris  as a hook to explore larger concerns about massacre in plays by Robert Greene, George Chapman, John Fletcher, and William Shakespeare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThus,\u003ci\u003e Massacres in Early Modern Drama\u003c\/i\u003e considers how early modern drama forms part of a continual cultural process of trying to piece together the contentious and traumatic phenomenon of massacre.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47920503226526,"sku":"ING-9781526147318","price":194.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781526147318.jpg?v=1782822334","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781526147318","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}