Four Revenge Tragedies / edited with an introduction by Katharine Eisaman Maus ; general editor, Michael Cordner ; associate general editors, Peter Holland, Martin Wiggins.
Material type: TextSeries: The World's classicsPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.Description: xxxvii, 426 p. ; 20 cmISBN:- 0192826336
- PR1257 .F68 1995
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Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxiii-xxxv).
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.
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