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Author : Gretchen E. Minton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1474280404
Author : Thomas Middleton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350112506
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.
Author : Gretchen E. Minton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474280389
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.
Author : Gretchen E. Minton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781474257527
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.
Author : Thomas Middleton
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : EAN:8596547315902
"The Revenger's Tragedy" is a cynical revenge drama by Thomas Middleton, a Jacobean playwright. It depicts a tragic and ambitious battle for power in a seventeenth-century Italian court. The themes of revenge, power, lust, and death remain dominant throughout the play.
Author : Sonia Massai,Lucy Munro
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350117747
This collection brings together emerging and established scholars to explore fresh approaches to Shakespeare's best-known play. Hamlet has often served as a testing ground for innovative readings and new approaches. Its unique textual history – surviving as it does in three substantially different early versions – means that it offers an especially complex and intriguing case-study for histories of early modern publishing and the relationship between page and stage. Similarly, its long history of stage and screen revival, creative appropriation and critical commentary offer rich materials for various forms of scholarship. The essays in Hamlet: The State of Play explore the play from a variety of different angles, drawing on contemporary approaches to gender, sexuality, race, the history of emotions, memory, visual and material cultures, performativity, theories and histories of place, and textual studies. They offer fresh approaches to literary and cultural analysis, offer accessible introductions to some current ways of exploring the relationship between the three early texts, and present analysis of some important recent responses to Hamlet on screen and stage, together with a set of approaches to the study of adaptation.
Author : Cyril Tourneur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : English drama
ISBN : UOM:39015046331172
A vivid and often violent portrayal of lust and ambition in an Italian court, the play typifies the satiric tone and cynicism of much Jacobean tragedy.
Author : Brian Walsh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1472585445
'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 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
Author : Chris McMahon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136496288
In this book, McMahon considers Early Modern revenge plays from a political science perspective, paying particular attention to the construction of family and state institutions. Plays set for close study are The Spanish Tragedy, Hamlet, The Revenger’s Tragedy, The Malcontent and The Duchess of Malfi. The plays are read as unique events occupying positions in historical process concerning the privatisation of the family (by means of symbolism and concrete household strategies such as budgeting and surveillance) and the subsequent appropriation of the family and its methods by the state. The effect is that family becomes an unofficial organ of the state. This process, however, also involves the reform of the state along lines demanded by the private family. McMahon’s critical method, derived from the theory of Bourdieu, Bataille, and Girard, maps capital transactions to reveal emotionally charged, often idiosyncratic responses to issues of shared concern. Such issues include state corruption, the management of women, the performance of roles according to gender, the uses of surveillance, and the ethics of sacrifice.
Author : Jesse Berger
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822221454
THE STORY: This mesmerizing Jacobean thriller, written a few years after Hamlet , is a searing examination of humankind's social need for justice and our animal desire for vengeance. Vindice, the Revenger, sets off a chain reaction of havoc
Author : J. W. Lever
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000639551
The domination of the state over the lives of individuals is, arguably, a problem of the present-day world. In this book, first published in 1971, the author finds essentially the same problem in Jacobean tragedy in the shape it assumed during the rise of the first European nation-states. The English dramatists of the early seventeenth century a
Author : Brian Walsh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472585424
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.
Author : Thomas Kyd,John Ford,John Webster
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472573575
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 : C W R D Moseley
Publisher : Humanities-Ebooks
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781847601056
Part I examines the context for Shakespeare's history plays, including the a treatment of Elizabethan cosmology and its relevance to political order. Part 2 explores the 'Ricardian' plays, under the following headings: Mirrors of our Fickle State; Hawks and Handsaws: Modes and Genres of the Plays; This Blessed Plot: Husbandry and the Garden; Passing Brave to be a King: Richard II; This Royal Throne of Kings: Henry IV, parts 1 and 2; This Sceptred Isle: Henry V; A Trim Reckoning: Language, Poetics and Rhetoric.
Author : David J. Lake
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1975-07-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780521207416
This book sets out to solve by statistics the problems of disputed authorship that surround the work of Jacobean dramatist Thomas Middleton. Among other things, Dr Lake shows that there is 99 per cent statistical confidence for the conclusion that The Puritan and The Revenger's Tragedy were written by Middleton rather than by anyone else alive in the early seventeenth century.
