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In many Western countries, numerous instances of cases of historical and present-day sexual abuse of children (Child Sexual Abuse, CSA) have made the headlines across the entire range of media. These cases are discussed variously as paedophilia and child sexual abuse. In the heat of the debate, concepts and related terminology tend to become at best vague, and there is much in the way of sheer sensationalism. Altogether, a hazy cloud of facts and fiction has been created around paedophilia in its relation to CSA.This book adds to the very urgently needed enhanced level of understanding by analysing the nature of paedophilia and its relation to CSA as they have been depicted and dealt with in contemporary British and American drama and theatre. Drawing on the plays and their reviews allows it to illustrate the ambiguity of paedophilia and child sex abuse, and to ask questions that are not often uttered and not easily answered.

Now a major motion picture! Starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams. Written and directed by John Patrick Shanley from his Pulitzer Prize-winning play. \"The best new play of the season. That rarity of rarities, an issue-driven play that is unpreachy, thought-provoking, and so full of high drama that the audience with which I saw it gasped out loud a half-dozen times at its startling twists and turns. Mr. Shanley deserves the highest possible praise: he doesn't try to talk you into doing anything but thinking-hard-about the gnarly complexity of human behavior.\"-Terry Teachout,The Wall Street Journal \"A breathtaking work of immense proportion. Positively brilliant.\"-Melissa Rose Bernardo,Entertainment Weekly \"#1 show of the year. How splendid it feels to be trusted with such passionate, exquisite ambiguity unlike anything we have seen from this prolific playwright so far. In just ninety fast-moving minutes, Shanley creates four blazingly individual people.Doubtis a lean, potent drama . . . passionate, exquisite, important and engrossing.\"-Linda Winer,Newsday John Patrick Shanleyis the author of numerous plays, includingDanny in the Deep Blue Sea,Dirty Story,Four Dogs and a Bone,Psychopathia,Sexualis,Sailor's Song, Savage in Limbo, andWhere's My Money?He has written extensively for TV and film, and his credits include the teleplay forLive from Baghdadand screenplays forCongo;Alive;Five Corners;Joe Versus the Volcano, which he also directed; andMoonstruck, for which he won an Academy Award for best original screenplay.