The politics of rape

Beginning with the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 and concluding with reactions to the accession of William and Mary, The Politics of Rape is the first full-length study to examine theatrical representations of sexual violence in the latter-half of the seventeenth century. The study gathers and catalogues a wealth of previously unexplored pamphlet tracts to provide a new reading of dramatic sexual violence, one that accounts for the interplay between propaganda culture and the British stage.