The Revenger's Tragedy: The State of Play

The Revenger's Tragedy: The State of Play
Author: Gretchen E. Minton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2017-11-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1474280390

The Revenger's Tragedy (1606), now widely attributed to Thomas Middleton, is a play that provides a dark, satirical response to other revenge tragedies such as Hamlet. With its over-the-top and highly theatrical approach to revenge, The Revenger's Tragedy has emerged as one of the most compelling examples of a drama by one of Shakespeare's contemporaries. This collection of ten newly-commissioned essays situates the play with respect to other Middleton and Shakespeare works as well as repertory, showcasing recent research about the play's engagement with issues such as religion, genre, race, language and performance.

The Revenger's Tragedy

The Revenger's Tragedy
Author: Gretchen E. Minton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2018-12-27
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1474257526

A major new edition of this much studied play offering the standard, depth and range associated with all Arden editions. The on-page commentary notes explain the language, referenes and staging issues posed by the text while the lengthy, illustrated introduction offers a lively overview of the play's historical, performance and critical contexts. This is the ideal edition for study and performance.

English Renaissance Tragedy

English Renaissance Tragedy
Author: T McAlindon
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 279
Release: 1988-09-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 134910180X

This book provides an introductory perspective on its subject together with detailed studies of the major non-Shakespearean tragedies. It assumes that the central and most disturbing insights of the plays were expressed in terms of the thought patterns of the time.

The Revenger's Tragedy: A Critical Reader

The Revenger's Tragedy: A Critical Reader
Author: Brian Walsh
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2016-10-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1472585429

The Revenger's Tragedy is one of the most vital, important, and enduring tragedies of the Jacobean era, one of the few non-Shakespearean plays of that period that is still regularly revived on stage and taught in classrooms. The play is notable for its piercing insight into human depravity, its savage humour, and its florid theatricality. This collection of new essays offers students an invaluable overview of the play's critical and performance history as well as four critical essays offering a range of new perspectives.

The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy

The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy
Author: Emma Josephine Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2010-08-12
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0521519373

Introducing the reader to important topics in English Renaissance tragedy, this Companion presents fresh readings of key texts.

The Revenger's Tragedy

The Revenger's Tragedy
Author: Cyril Tourneur
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1996-05-15
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780719043758

This book depicts a morally corrupt universe where the desire for justice is contaminated by the obsession for revenge. The denunciations of sin are countered at each turn by the pleasure characters take in acting or watching adultery, incest & murder.

The Revenger's Tragedy: The State of Play

The Revenger's Tragedy: The State of Play
Author: Gretchen E. Minton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2017-11-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1474280382

The Revenger's Tragedy (1606), now widely attributed to Thomas Middleton, is a play that provides a dark, satirical response to other revenge tragedies such as Hamlet. With its over-the-top and highly theatrical approach to revenge, The Revenger's Tragedy has emerged as one of the most compelling examples of a drama by one of Shakespeare's contemporaries. This collection of ten newly-commissioned essays situates the play with respect to other Middleton and Shakespeare works as well as repertory, showcasing recent research about the play's engagement with issues such as religion, genre, race, language and performance.

The Tragedy of State

The Tragedy of State
Author: J. W. Lever
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2019-08-13
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 100063955X

The domination of the state over the lives of individuals is, arguably, a problem of the present-day world. In this book, first published in 1971, the author finds essentially the same problem in Jacobean tragedy in the shape it assumed during the rise of the first European nation-states. The English dramatists of the early seventeenth century a