The Revenger's Tragedy: The State of Play
Title | The Revenger's Tragedy: The State of Play PDF eBook |
Author | Gretchen E. Minton |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2017-11-16 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1474280382 |
The Revenger's Tragedy (1606), now widely attributed to Thomas Middleton, is a play that provides a dark, satirical response to other revenge tragedies such as Hamlet. With its over-the-top and highly theatrical approach to revenge, The Revenger's Tragedy has emerged as one of the most compelling examples of a drama by one of Shakespeare's contemporaries. This collection of ten newly-commissioned essays situates the play with respect to other Middleton and Shakespeare works as well as repertory, showcasing recent research about the play's engagement with issues such as religion, genre, race, language and performance.
The Revenger's Tragedy: The State of Play
Title | The Revenger's Tragedy: The State of Play PDF eBook |
Author | Gretchen E. Minton |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2017-11-16 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1474280390 |
The Revenger's Tragedy (1606), now widely attributed to Thomas Middleton, is a play that provides a dark, satirical response to other revenge tragedies such as Hamlet. With its over-the-top and highly theatrical approach to revenge, The Revenger's Tragedy has emerged as one of the most compelling examples of a drama by one of Shakespeare's contemporaries. This collection of ten newly-commissioned essays situates the play with respect to other Middleton and Shakespeare works as well as repertory, showcasing recent research about the play's engagement with issues such as religion, genre, race, language and performance.
The Revenger's Tragedy
Title | The Revenger's Tragedy PDF eBook |
Author | Gretchen E. Minton |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2018-12-27 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1474257526 |
A major new edition of this much studied play offering the standard, depth and range associated with all Arden editions. The on-page commentary notes explain the language, referenes and staging issues posed by the text while the lengthy, illustrated introduction offers a lively overview of the play's historical, performance and critical contexts. This is the ideal edition for study and performance.
The Revenger's Tragedy: A Critical Reader
Title | The Revenger's Tragedy: A Critical Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Walsh |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 319 |
Release | 2016-10-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1472585429 |
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.
The Revenger's Tragedy: The State of Play
Title | The Revenger's Tragedy: The State of Play PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Middleton |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2019-05-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 135011250X |
The Revenger's Tragedy treads a line between macabre humour and moral commentary. Thomas Middleton's aptly named play begins with a man called Vindice holding the skull of his dead fianceé and vowing to avenge her death. The tragedy that unfolds features complicated plot twists in which the licentious Duke and his corrupt family, who are guilty of rape, poisoning, and much more, become the victims of torture and murder. This edition offers a comprehensive analysis of diverse critical attitudes towards the play, with special attention to its authorship and its ambiguous theological orientation. A thorough discussion of The Revenger's Tragedy's rich performance history shows how it has consistently reflected cultural preoccupations with violence and vigilante justice.
English Renaissance Tragedy
Title | English Renaissance Tragedy PDF eBook |
Author | T McAlindon |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 279 |
Release | 1988-09-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 134910180X |
This book provides an introductory perspective on its subject together with detailed studies of the major non-Shakespearean tragedies. It assumes that the central and most disturbing insights of the plays were expressed in terms of the thought patterns of the time.
The Revenger's Tragedy
Title | The Revenger's Tragedy PDF eBook |
Author | Cyril Tourneur |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 1996-05-15 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780719043758 |
This book depicts a morally corrupt universe where the desire for justice is contaminated by the obsession for revenge. The denunciations of sin are countered at each turn by the pleasure characters take in acting or watching adultery, incest & murder.