Shakespeare's violated bodies: stage and screen performance

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

Note on texts used

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