The Revenger's Tragedy: A Critical Reader

ISBN-13: 9781472585400 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 320 str.

Brian Walsh; Andrew Hiscock; Lisa Hopkins

Opis

The Revenger's Tragedy is one of the most vital, important, and enduring tragedies of the Jacobean era, one of the few non-Shakespearean plays of that period that is still regularly revived on stage and taught in classrooms. The play is notable for its piercing insight into human depravity, its savage humour, and its florid theatricality. This collection of new essays offers students an invaluable overview of the play's critical and performance history as well as four critical essays offering a range of new perspectives.

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Series Introduction The Revenger’s Tragedy timeline Introduction 1. The Critical Backstory 2. Performance History 3. The State of the Art 4. New Directions i) The Revenger’s Tragedy without Middleton’ ii) The salvation of my oath’: Contractual Relationships and the Operation of Grace in Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy iii) The Revenger’s Tragedy: Affairs between Men iv) The Ends of Mourning: Middleton and Benjamin; 5: Resources Notes Select Bibliography Index