Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy, 1587-1642

Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy, 1587-1642
Author: Fredson Thayer Bowers
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2015-12-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 140087730X

A most thorough study of the Elizabethan Tragedy of Revenge, its origins, development, the ethical influence affecting it and the inter-relations of the plays. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Revenge Tragedy and the Drama of Commemoration in Reforming England

Revenge Tragedy and the Drama of Commemoration in Reforming England
Author: Thomas Rist
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2008
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780754661528

Considering major works by Kyd, Shakespeare, Middleton and Webster among others, this book transforms current understanding of early modern revenge tragedy. Revising the genre in light of historical revisions to England's Reformations, and with appropriate regard to the social history of the dead, it shows revenge tragedy is not a Reformist and anti-Catholic genre, but one rooted in traditional Catholic culture, thereby transforming understandings of the theatre of the age