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Article: Performing Early Modern Trauma from Shakespeare to Milton.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 22, 2007
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Thomas P. Anderson. Performing Early Modern Trauma from Shakespeare to Milton.
Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006. viii + 226 pp. index. illus. bibl. $94.95. ISBN: 0-7546-5564-4.
For the last several decades, the predominant mode for understanding violence and wounding on the early modern English stage has been Foucauldian and New Historicist. The exceptions have been by and large driven by psychoanalysis and deconstruction. Anderson's book falls squarely in the latter camp, as the word trauma in the title might suggest. Some dead exert no pressure on the living, it seems, and Anderson does not feel compelled to mount either an extended critique ...