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Unto the Breach: Martial Formations, Historical Trauma, and the Early Modern
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Unto the Breach: Martial Formations, Historical Trauma, and the Early Modern Stage Hardcover - 2009

by Patricia A. Cahill


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The Elizabethan theatrical repertory was enthralled with the era's martial discourses and beset by its blinding visions. In her richly historicized account of the theater's engagement with "modern" warfare, Patricia Cahill juxtaposes the new military technologies and new modes of martial abstraction with the performance of war-suffused dramas by Shakespeare, Marlowe, and their contemporaries. Equally important, she shows that even as early-modern playwrights engaged cutting-edge military practices, they routinely trafficked in phenomena resistant to the new rationalities, conjuring up a domain of eerie sounds, uncanny figures, and haunted temporalities. By going beyond the usual protocols of historicist criticism and emphasizing the complex dynamics of theatrical modes of address, this wide-ranging study investigates the representation of early-modern war trauma and recovers for us a compelling sense of the intimate relationship between affect and intellect on the Renaissance stage. Intervening in ongoing conversations about the drama's role in shaping the cultural imaginary, Unto the Breach shows that, in an era of escalating militarization, England's first commercial theaters offered their audiences something of incalculable value--namely, a space for the performance and "working through" of what might otherwise remain psychically unbearable in war's violence.

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  • Title Unto the Breach: Martial Formations, Historical Trauma, and the Early Modern Stage
  • Author Patricia A. Cahill
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher OUP Oxford, Oxford
  • Date 2009-01-15
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780199212057 / 0199212058
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.8 in (23.37 x 15.49 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Renaissance Studies
  • Library of Congress subjects War in literature, English drama - Early modern and
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009275651
  • Dewey Decimal Code 822.309

About the author


Patricia Cahill is an Associate Professor of English at Emory University who specializes in Shakespeare and in Renaissance drama and culture.
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