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Divine Vengeance: A Study in the Philosophical Backgrounds of the Revenge Motif as It Appears in Shakespeare's Chronicle History Plays
Author | : Sister Mary Bonaventure Mroz |
Publisher | : Ardent Media |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Revenge in literature |
ISBN | : |
Vessels of Vengeance
Author | : Genevieve Romeo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : God |
ISBN | : |
This dissertation examines the intersections between human anger and divine wrath in Tudor and Stuart revenge tragedies. Traditional scholarship on Renaissance drama looks to the philosophical foundations of the passions, while more recent criticism focuses on the physiological origins of early modern conceptions of emotion. My work combines both of these approaches with a sustained investigation into the theological foundations and implications of the passions--specifically the passion of wrath as it finds both divine and human expression in revenge tragedy. My dissertation explores instances where divine and human anger collide - or, perhaps, collude - on the early modern stage by contextualizing plays such as William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Cyril Tourneur's The Atheist's Tragedy, and John Marston's Antonio's Revenge with theological writings by John Calvin, Martin Luther, and Thomas Jackson, among others. My study analyzes the way authors used the anthropopathic conception of divine wrath as both an exhortation against human anger and as a metaphorical accommodation that legitimizes and sanctifies sinful, passionate human emotion.
Divine Vengeance
Author | : Mary Bonaventure Mroz |
Publisher | : Literary Licensing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2011-10-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258166472 |
Civil Vengeance
Author | : Emily L. King |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2019-09-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501739662 |
What is revenge, and what purpose does it serve? On the early modern English stage, depictions of violence and carnage—the duel between Hamlet and Laertes that leaves nearly everyone dead or the ghastly meal of human remains served at the end of Titus Andronicus—emphasize arresting acts of revenge that upset the social order. Yet the subsequent critical focus on a narrow selection of often bloody "revenge plays" has overshadowed subtler and less spectacular modes of vengeance present in early modern culture. In Civil Vengeance, Emily L. King offers a new way of understanding early modern revenge in relation to civility and community. Rather than relegating vengeance to the social periphery, she uncovers how facets of society—church, law, and education—relied on the dynamic of retribution to augment their power such that revenge emerges as an extension of civility. To revise the lineage of revenge literature in early modern England, King rereads familiar revenge tragedies (including Marston's Antonio's Revenge and Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy) alongside a new archive that includes conduct manuals, legal and political documents, and sermons. Shifting attention from episodic revenge to quotidian forms, Civil Vengeance provides new insights into the manner by which retaliation informs identity formation, interpersonal relationships, and the construction of the social body.
Revenge Tragedy
Author | : John Kerrigan |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Revenge has long been a central theme in Western culture. From Homer to Nietzsche, from St. Paul to Sylvia Plath, major writers have been fascinated by its emotional intensity and by the questions it raises about the nature of justice, violence, sexuality, and death. John Kerrigan employs both wide-ranging historical analysis and subtle attention to individual texts to explore the culture of vengeance in several languages and genres. Thus, he shows how evolving attitudes to retribution have shaped and reconstituted tragedy in the West and elucidates the remarkable capacity of this ancient theme to generate innovative works of art. Although this book is a literary study, it makes use of anthropology, social theory, and moral philosophy. As a result, it will be of interest to students in a variety of disciplines, as well as to the general reader.
Revenge in Attic and Later Tragedy
Author | : Anne Pippin Burnett |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
We who live among tired and demystified political institutions are afraid that individuals unrestrained by the influence of the community may resort to crime and violence. Yet in an Attic vengeance play, a treacherous "criminal" triumphs over a victim. How could the city of Athens show its citizens Medea's murder of her children? Orestes' killing of his mother? Anne Burnett reveals a larger reality in these ancient plays, comparing them to later drama and finding in them forgotten and powerful meaning.
The Subject of Tragedy (Routledge Revivals)
Author | : Catherine Belsey |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2014-06-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317744438 |
First published in 1985, The Subject of Tragedy takes the drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as the starting point for an analysis of the differential identities of man and woman. Catherine Belsey charts, in a range of fictional and non-fictional texts, the production in the Renaissance of a meaning for subjectivity that is identifiably modern. The subject of liberal humanism – self-determining, free origin of language, choice and action – is highlighted as the product of a specific period in which man was the subject to which woman was related.
The Questions of Tragedy
Author | : Arthur B. Coffin |
Publisher | : Edwin Mellen Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Tragedy |
ISBN | : 9780773499034 |
A selection of essays on tragedy, this volume begins with the premise that any reading of tragedy can be stimulated and enriched by supplementary critical texts which have been selected for precisely those qualities that would enhance one's response to tragedy. The text attempts a reconstruction of the canon of the criticism of tragedy through a critical overview of traditional classical commentary, Russian Formalism, Reader Response Theory, Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, Deconstructionism, and Marxist criticism. Includes selections from the writings of Aristotle, Hegel, Nietzsche, Georg Lukacs, Arthur Miller, Karl Jaspers, Max Sheler, Laurence Michel, Henry Alonzo Myers, Northrop Frye, Albert C. Outler, and others.