Revenge In Restoration Tragedy
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Revenge In Restoration Tragedy
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Author : Hugh Winston Park
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
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The Last Dear Drop Of Blood
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Author : Misty Sabrina Krueger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
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Revenge on the English stage has long been associated with Elizabethan and Renaissance revenge tragedies and has been all but ignored in Restoration theater history. While the shortage of scholarly work on revenge in Restoration drama might seem to indicate that revenge is not a vital part of Restoration drama, I argue that revenge on stage in the Restoration is connected with important late seventeenth-century anxieties about monarchy and political subjecthood in the period. This dissertation examines how Restoration tragic drama staged during Charles II's reign (1660-1685) depicts revenge as a representation of an unrestrained passion that contributes to the 'seditious roaring of a troubled nation' of which Thomas Hobbes writes in Leviathan. This dissertation suggests that we need to assess Restoration tragic drama's employment of acts of vengeance in order to better understand how tragic drama of the period narrates crises of kinship, kingship, and political subjecthood. In chapters addressing blood revenge, rape, female passion, and personal ambition, I examine revenge in a number of Restoration tragic dramas written for the stage between 1660 and 1685. This project shows that characters' claims to redress wrongs committed against the civil notion of justice collapse into private, individual desires that are pathological and destructive of the state. This project on revenge has the potential to shape the way we think about revenge on stage by calling attention to revenge as a sign of self-interest at the end of the seventeenth century, an age in which a shift in thinking about monarchy and personhood was taking place. Just as Hobbes warns against the "excessive desire of Revenge," this dissertation shows how playwrights stage revenge as a warning about the potentially destructive consequences of revenge: revenge puts not only private bodies in danger but also the public well being of the state.
Four Revenge Tragedies
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Author : Thomas Kyd
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2014-05-08
Four Revenge Tragedies written by Thomas Kyd and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Francis Bacon described revenge as a 'kind of wild justice'. Then as now, early modern playwrights and their theatre-going public were fascinated by the anarchic energies that a desire for retribution unleashes. Rather than rehearsing familiar conventions, each of these plays presents a unique social and cultural milieu where dark fantasies of revenge are variously played out. In Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy a grieving father seeks public justice for the murder of his son by envious princelings. When his attempts are thwarted he turns a court spectacle of murder into the 'real' thing. Blackly comic in its tone and style, The Revenger's Tragedy (anon.) presents vengeance as mimetic art, witty and cruel. Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore represents an innovative re-working of the genre as a brother's love for his sister leads to his spectacular revenge on his rival, her husband, in a society in which brutal retaliation for perceived wrong is the norm. In Webster's The White Devil crimes of passion ignite revenge in the courts of the Italian city states. This student edition contains fully annotated, modernized texts of each play together with an introduction discussing the dramatic and poetic style of each play, focusing on its action and play of ideas.
Three Revenge Tragedies
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Author : Cyril Tourneur
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2004-08-26
Three Revenge Tragedies written by Cyril Tourneur and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-26 with Drama categories.
Following the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign in the early seventeenth century, the new court of King James was beset by political instability and moral corruption. This atmosphere provided fertile ground for the dramatists of the age, whose plays explore the ways in which social decadence and the abuse of power breed resentment and lead inexorably to violence and bloody retribution. In Tourneur's The Revenger's Tragedy, the debauched son of an Italian Duke attempts to rape the virtuous Gloriana - a veiled reference to Elizabeth I. Webster's The White Devil depicts a sinister world of intrigue and murderous infidelity, while The Changeling, perhaps Middleton's supreme achievement, powerfully portrays a woman bringing about her own unwitting destruction. All three are masterpieces of brooding intensity, dominated by images of decay, disillusionment and death.
The Revenge
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Author : Edward Young
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1792
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The Revenge A Tragedy In Five Acts And In Verse
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Author : Edward Young
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1721
The Revenge A Tragedy In Five Acts And In Verse written by Edward Young and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1721 with English drama (Tragedy) categories.
The Revenger S Tragedy
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Author : Cyril Tourneur
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
The Revenger S Tragedy written by Cyril Tourneur and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Drama categories.
A vivid and often violent portrayal of lust and ambition in an Italian court, the play typifies the satiric tone and cynicism of much Jacobean tragedy. The play fell out of favour at some point before the restoration of the theaters in 1660; however, it experienced a revival in the twentieth century among directors and playgoers who appreciated its affinity with the temper of modern times.
Likenesses Of Truth In Elizabethan And Restoration Drama
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Author : Harriett Hawkins
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1972
Likenesses Of Truth In Elizabethan And Restoration Drama written by Harriett Hawkins and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Drama categories.
Renaissance Revivals
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Author : Wendy Griswold
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1986-10
Renaissance Revivals written by Wendy Griswold and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-10 with History categories.
Renaissance Revivals examines patterns in the London revivals of two English Renaissance theatre genres over the past four centuries. Griswold's focus on revenge tragedies and city comedies illuminates the ongoing interaction between society and its cultural products. No cultural object is ever created anew, she argues, but is instead constructed from existing cultural genres and conventions, the visions and professional needs of the artist, and the interests of an audience. Thus, every "new play" is in part a renaissance and every "revival" is in part an entirely new cultural object.
The Revenge
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Author : Edward Young
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1830
The Revenge written by Edward Young and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1830 with categories.