%0 Book %A Airey, Jennifer L., 1980- author. %I University of Delaware Press %D 2014 %C Newark %G English %@ 9781611495430 (paperback) %@ 1611495431 (paperback) %T The politics of rape : sexual atrocity, propaganda wars, and the Restoration stage %7 First paperback edition. %X 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.