Four Revenge Tragedies The Spanish Tragedy The Revengers Tragedy The Revenge Of Bussy Dambois And The Atheists Tragedy

Author : Robert Shaughnessy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136855041
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Guide to William Shakespeare written by Robert Shaughnessy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demystifying and contextualising Shakespeare for the twenty-first century, this book offers both an introduction to the subject for beginners as well as an invaluable resource for more experienced Shakespeareans. In this friendly, structured guide, Robert Shaughnessy: introduces Shakespeare’s life and works in context, providing crucial historical background looks at each of Shakespeare’s plays in turn, considering issues of historical context, contemporary criticism and performance history provides detailed discussion of twentieth-century Shakespearean criticism, exploring the theories, debates and discoveries that shape our understanding of Shakespeare today looks at contemporary performances of Shakespeare on stage and screen provides further critical reading by play outlines detailed chronologies of Shakespeare’s life and works and also of twentieth-century criticism The companion website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/shaughnessy contains student-focused materials and resources, including an interactive timeline and annotated weblinks.

Author : Linda Woodbridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139493558
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Revenge Drama written by Linda Woodbridge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vengeance permeates English Renaissance drama - for example, it crops up in all but two of Shakespeare's plays. This book explores why a supposedly forgiving Christian culture should have relished such bloodthirsty, vengeful plays. A clue lies in the plays' passion for fairness, a preoccupation suggesting widespread resentment of systemic unfairness - legal, economic, political and social. Revengers' precise equivalents - the father of two beheaded sons obliges his enemy to eat her two sons' heads - are vigilante versions of Elizabethan law, where penalties suit the crimes: thieves' hands were cut off, scolds' tongues bridled. The revengers' language of 'paying' hints at the operation of revenge in the service of economic redress. Revenge makes contact with resistance theory, justifying overthrow of tyrants, and some revengers challenge the fundamental inequity of social class. Woodbridge demonstrates how, for all their sensationalism, their macabre comedy and outlandish gore, Renaissance revenge plays do some serious cultural work.

Author : Derek Dunne
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137572876
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare, Revenge Tragedy and Early Modern Law written by Derek Dunne and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the first to trace revenge tragedy's evolving dialogue with early modern law, draws on changing laws of evidence, food riots, piracy, and debates over royal prerogative. By taking the genre's legal potential seriously, it opens up the radical critique embedded in the revenge tragedies of Kyd, Shakespeare, Marston, Chettle and Middleton.

Author : Janet Clare
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revenge Tragedies of the Renaissance written by Janet Clare and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of revenge tragedies - notably by Thomas Kyd, William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, John Marston and John Webster - Janet Clare suggests that genres are not passively inherited, but made and re-made every time a new play is performed. The implication that there is an identifiable genre of revenge tragedy rehearsing common conventions is challenged as Clare examines Renaissance plays of revenge on their own terms. While disclosing evident inter-textual links and a similar appeal to classical material, revenge plays of the late Elizabethan and Jacobean period strive for a range of effects including satire, parody and farce. Some plays embody a providential outlook while others seem defiantly secular. Francis Bacon's famous maxim 'a kind of wild justice' captures the moral ambivalence of revenge: a rough justice on the point of anarchy. Janet Clare demonstrates the problematic nature of revenge as it defines dramatic action As the exploration of plays in this study reveals, revenge is not only bound up with justice, honour and duty, but impelled by perverted impulses, envy and resentment.

Author : Thomas Kyd
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141960469
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Five Revenge Tragedies written by Thomas Kyd and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Elizabethan era gave way to the reign of James I, England grappled with corruption within the royal court and widespread religious anxiety. Dramatists responded with morally complex plays of dark wit and violent spectacle, exploring the nature of death, the abuse of power and vigilante justice. In Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy a father failed by the Spanish court seeks his own bloody retribution for his son's murder. Shakespeare's 1603 version of Hamlet creates an avenging Prince of unique psychological depth, while Chettle's The Tragedy of Hoffman is a fascinating reworking of Hamlet's themes, probably for a rival theatre company. In Marston's Antonio's Revenge, thwarted love leads inexorably to gory reprisals and in Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy, malcontent Vindice unleashes an escalating orgy of mayhem on a debauched Duke for his bride's murder, in a ferocious satire reflecting the mounting disillusionment of the age. Emma Smith's introduction considers the political and religious climate behind the plays and the dramatic conventions within them. This edition includes a chronology, playwrights' biographies and suggestions for further reading.

Author : Thomas Kyd
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472573587
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Revenge Tragedies written by Thomas Kyd and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis Bacon described revenge as a 'kind of wild justice'. Then as now, early modern playwrights and their theatre-going public were fascinated by the anarchic energies that a desire for retribution unleashes. Rather than rehearsing familiar conventions, each of these plays presents a unique social and cultural milieu where dark fantasies of revenge are variously played out. In Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy a grieving father seeks public justice for the murder of his son by envious princelings. When his attempts are thwarted he turns a court spectacle of murder into the 'real' thing. Blackly comic in its tone and style, The Revenger's Tragedy (anon.) presents vengeance as mimetic art, witty and cruel. Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore represents an innovative re-working of the genre as a brother's love for his sister leads to his spectacular revenge on his rival, her husband, in a society in which brutal retaliation for perceived wrong is the norm. In Webster's The White Devil crimes of passion ignite revenge in the courts of the Italian city states. This student edition contains fully annotated, modernized texts of each play together with an introduction discussing the dramatic and poetic style of each play, focusing on its action and play of ideas.

Author : K. P. S. Jochum
Publisher : Frankfurt am Main ; Bern ; Las Vegas : Lang
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discrepant Awareness written by K. P. S. Jochum and published by Frankfurt am Main ; Bern ; Las Vegas : Lang. This book was released on 1979 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: «Discrepant awareness» describes the unequal distribution of knowledge and information among various characters in a drama as well as in the relationship between dramatic characters and audience. Only a few studies of this important dramatic element have been written so far. This book attempts to define discrepant awareness and to explore its various possibilities of usage in a coherent body of dramatic literature.

Author : Edward G. Quinn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1052 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Shakespeare Encyclopaedia written by Edward G. Quinn and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Chapman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bussy D'Ambois written by George Chapman and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles A. Hallett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780608018478
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Revenger's Madness written by Charles A. Hallett and published by . This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: