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Christopher Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris, a play which probably dates from 1592 but has reached posterity in a mangled form, enacts the incorporation of religious and state politics in the theatre. Through a sequence of short scenes characterized by senseless brutality and black humor, Marlowe revisits one of the darkest episodes of French history, the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre, which took place on the 24th and 25th August 1572. Dramatizing the slaughter of thousands of Protestants by Catholics, the play not only reflects on the significance of massacre as a political term for an increasingly absolutist Renaissance Europe but also translates the violence of massacre into aesthetic form. Itself alien within the body of Marlowe's dramatic works, The Massacre at Paris has rarely been performed after its Elizabethan successful performances at the Rose; this is not surprising given the state of the extant text and its dismissal by many critics as crude anti-Catholic propaganda. Yet, the Massacre's corrupt and incomplete form, political ambiguities and emphasis on theatrical violence have inspired two contemporary artists, the French director Guillaume Delaveau and the Austrian composer Wolfgang Mitterer, to rethink and revive it. Both Delaveau's Massacre à Paris, first performed at Toulouse in 2007 and Mitterer's experimental opera Massacre, composed in 2003 and performed in 2008 and 2010 in France, refer to recent wars and atrocities and rejoice in the irony of the play. This paper seeks to investigate the play's ability to convey political thought and provoke contemporary audiences by reading it together with Delaveau and Mitterer's adaptations. The challenge of reworking the Massacre for our age involves the question of the theatre's potential to expose the audience to the horror of history.

A LATIN AMERICAN TRUE CRIME CLASSIC IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME On the evening of 9th June 1956 in an apartment in Buenos Aires, a dozen men were arrested on suspicion of plotting against the Argentine government. A few hours later, the local police chief received the order to execute them. Almost all were innocent. Operation Massacre recreates the events of that night and its aftermath in dramatic detail, from the horrifying, botched execution to the author's successful efforts to track down the survivors and bring the perpetrators to justice. Pre-dating Capote's In Cold Blood by ove

AbstractWhy do some bouts of collective action end in bloodshed? This study evaluates a diverse collection of cases featuring opposition movements that experienced government‐led massacres. Historically, protest massacres originate to 19th century struggles associated with populational needs of obtaining public goods and political representation from governments. Unlike genocide and politicide which are likely to take place during heightened conflict, protest massacres tend to occur outside of war and civil war. Data on 76 incidents (1819–2017) capturing direct action strategies, preceding levels of mobilization, regime threat levels, and temporal characteristics of each massacre is analyzed.

[p. 2] ; column 2 ; 7 ½ col. in. ; The Mormons are thought to be complicit in the massacre of 130 emigrants at St. Bernardino. Mr. Geo. Powers reports at a meeting in Los Angeles that the Mormons are making extensive preparations at Fort Bridger and at Fort Supply to fight the United States government. Mr. Henry Magridge reports that he has heard Willard Richards give orders to missionaries to establish a mission amongst the Indians, to form treaties and alliances with them, and then to marry Indian women to solidify the alliance. The Mormons teach the Indians that Americans are their enemies and that they should kill all Americans they meet.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Heartbreak Farming in Oklahoma -- 2. Criminal Careers, Country Style -- 3. Youngs Accused of Boxcar Burglary -- 4. Paul on a Career Path of His Own -- 5. A Busy Year for Harry -- 6. Harry Slays Mark S. Noe -- 7. Jennings in Jail Again -- 8. Springfield's Finest-Victims of the Massacre -- 9. Clouds of Disaster Gather -- 10. The Massacre -- 11. Word Goes Out: "Find the Killers -- 12. The Second Shootout -- 13. The Survivors' Tales -- 14. Aftermath of Disaster -- Epilogue -- Notes.