A Revenger’s Tragedy
This chapter develops a number of themes introduced in the previous chapter, most obviously those which touch on contemporary expressions of child-abuse. The broader focus of the chapter is on the familiar, and contentious, issue of pornography and its legal regulation. More particularly, though, it is concerned with the challenges presented by the internet ‘age’. And more closely still with cultural and legal responses to what has become know, itself contentiously, as ‘revenge porn’. The play upon which the chapter focuses is Evan Placey’s Girls Like That. The fact that Placey wrote his play for a student audience reinvests the educative capacity of modern theatre, whilst also inviting his audience to contemplate, once again, the place of empathy and compassion in (legal) education.