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

Unto the Breach: Martial Formations, Historical Trauma, and the Early Modern Stage
ISBN-10
0199212058
ISBN-13
9780199212057
Series
Unto the Breach
Category
History
Pages
227
Language
English
Published
2008-11-13
Publisher
Oxford University Press on Demand
Author
Patricia A. Cahill

Description

In Unto the Breach, Patricia Cahill demonstrates how England's decisive turn towards warfare in the 1580s gave rise to a theatrical repertory that was at once enthralled with the era's martial discourses and beset by its blinding visions. Examining dramas by Shakespeare, Marlowe, and their contemporaries alongside the period's military manuals and muster books, Cahill offers a richly historicized account of the theatre's sustained engagement with'modern' warfare. Equally important, she shows that even as martial dramas embraced military science, 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 historicistcriticism, Cahill's wide-ranging study traces the contours of early modern traumatic representation and recovers for us a compelling sense of the intimate relationship between affect and intellect on the early modern stage. Intervening in ongoing conversations about the drama's role in shaping the cultural imaginary, Cahill argues that in an era of escalating militarization, England's first commercial theatres offered their audiences something of incalculable value-namely, a space for theperformance and 'working through' of what might otherwise remain psychically unassimilable in war's violence.

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