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Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger´s Tragedy, ´Tis Pity She´s A Whore and The White Devil
Thomas Kyd
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
600
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408159606
SKU
V9781408159606
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99-50
About Thomas Kyd
Janet Clare is Professor of Renaissance Literature and Director of the Andrew Marvell Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Hull, UK. Play texts edited by: Andrew Gurr (The Spanish Tragedy), Brian Gibbons (The Revenger’s Tragedy), Martin Wiggins ('Tis Pity She’s a Whore), Christina Luckyj (The White Devil).
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