Four Revenge Tragedies

Four Revenge Tragedies
ISBN-10
0198121709
ISBN-13
9780198121701
Series
Four Revenge Tragedies
Category
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
Pages
426
Language
English
Published
1995
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Authors
Katharine Eisaman Maus, Michael Cordner

Description

The Revenge Tragedy flourished in Britain in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, published anonymously and ascribed first to Cyril Tourneur and then to Thomas Middleton. George Chapman's The Revenge of Bussy d'Ambois and Tourneur's TheAtheist's Tragedy appeared soon after.In different ways each of these four plays reveals the problems of the revenge genre, often by exploiting its conventions in unexpected directions. All deal with fundamental moral questions about the meaning of justice and the lengths to which victimized individuals may go to obtain it, whileregistering the strains of life in a rigid but increasingly fragile social hierarchy.Under the General Editorship of Michael Cordner of the University of York, the texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition, there is a scholarly introduction and detailed annotation.

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