Memory, re-enactment and trauma
Monstrous women: Aphra Behn's Abdelazer; or The moor's revenge and Elkanah Settle's The empress of Morocco
Degenerate rulers: Nathaniel Lee's The tragedy of Nero and The rival queens
Patrilineal discord: Nathaniel Lee and John Dryden's Oedipus and Thomas Otway's Don Carlos
Forsaken justice: Thomas Shadwell's The libertine and the Earl of Rochester's Lucina's rape or The tragedy of Vallentinian.
