Four Revenge Tragedies: (The Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois, and The Atheist's Tragedy) - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0198121709 ISBN 13: 9780198121701

Casa editrice: Clarendon Press, 1995

Riassunto

The Revenge Tragedy flourished in Britain in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, published anonymously and ascribed first to Cyril Tourneur and then to Thomas Middleton. George Chapman's The Revenge of Bussy d'Ambois and Tourneur's The Atheist's Tragedy appeared soon after.

In different ways each of these four plays reveals the problems of the revenge genre, often by exploiting its conventions in unexpected directions. All deal with fundamental moral questions about the meaning of justice and the lengths to which victimized individuals may go to obtain it, while registering the strains of life in a rigid but increasingly fragile social hierarchy.

Under the General Editorship of Michael Cordner of the University of York, the texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition, there is a scholarly introduction and detailed annotation.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Katharine Maus is Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia. Katharine Maus is the editor of Soliciting Interpretation: Literary Theory and Seventeenth-Century Texts (Chicago, 1990)

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Clarendon Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0198121709
• ISBN 13: 9780198121701
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 464
• Redattore: Maus Katharine Eisaman