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Georgie Lucas
is a Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at Edinburgh Napier University. Her research focuses upon two interrelated strands: the representation of atrocities on the early modern stage; and the intersections between Shakespeare and global atrocities from the Holocaust to 9/11. In addition to articles in Early Theatre and the Journal of the British Academy, her forthcoming monograph---Massacres in Early Modern Drama---is under contract with Manchester University Press where it will appear as part of the Revels Plays Companion Library Series. Along with Sarah E. Johnson (Royal Military College of Canada), she is currently co-editing Atrocity and Early Modern Drama for the Arden Early Modern Drama series
a guest post by Georgie Lucas Content Note: Massacres, Assassination, Graphic Images In August 1572 thousands of French Protestants—known as Huguenots—were slaughtered in a surprise attack by their Catholic compatriots in Paris. The Huguenots had descended on the French capital…
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