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Title The revenger's tragedy : a critical reader / edited by Brian Walsh
Published London : Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2016
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 304 pages)
Series Arden early modern drama guides
Arden early modern drama.
Contents The critical backstory / Heather Hirschfeld -- The revenger's tragedy on stage and screen / Lucy Munro -- The state of the art: current critical approaches to The revenger's tragedy / Christopher Crosbie -- New directions: The revenger's tragedy without Middleton / Jeremy Lopez -- New directions: the salvation of oaths: grace, swearing and Hamlet in The revenger's tragedy / Beatrice Groves -- New directions: The revenger's tragedy: affairs between men / Carol Thomas Neely -- New directions: The revenger's trauerspiel: Walter Benjamin and the secularization of theatricality / Martin Moraw -- Selected resources for teaching and studying The revenger's tragedy / Richard Brucher
Summary "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 publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-286) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Middleton, Thomas, -1627. Revenger's tragedy.
Middleton, Thomas, -1627 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Middleton, Thomas, -1627 fast
Revenger's tragedy (Middleton, Thomas) fast
Subject Revenge in literature.
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800.
DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Revenge in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Walsh, Brian (Professor of English), editor.
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