The Representation of Political Violence in the Plays about Iraq (2003-2011)
Introduction [1] Political violence (resistance violence, revolutionary violence, state violence, wars and terrorism) has been a compelling topic for many playwrights and researchers. As far back as the classical drama of ancient Athens, plays like Prometheus Bound, Oedipus Rex, Antigone, and the Bacchae have depicted violence that could be, in a sense, regarded as ‘political.’ During the Renaissance, terror was used as a “weapon of state power”, and this is reflected in some of the Elizabethan dramas where “Renaissance tragedy has its origins in Tudor terror and in the embryonic British state as much as in the Italian city-state of...
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