This book explores the vengeance permeating English Renaissance drama, connecting bloodthirsty and blackly comic plays with economics and political resistance.
This book explores the vengeance permeating English Renaissance drama, connecting bloodthirsty and blackly comic plays with economics and political resistance.
Linda Woodbridge is Weiss Chair in the Humanities and Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. She has published widely on the subjects of English Renaissance literature, women in literature, folklore and revenge. Her books include Women and the English Renaissance: Literature and the Nature of Womankind, 1540-1620 (1984), Shakespeare: A Selective Bibliography of Criticism (1988), The Scythe of Saturn: Shakespeare and Magical Thinking (1994) and Vagrancy, Homelessness, and English Renaissance Literature (2001).
Inhaltsangabe
Part I. Rampant Revenge: 1. Getting what one deserves 2. Can two wrongs ever make a right? Some theory Part II. Economic Unfairness: Revenge and Money: 3. Balancing the books: revenge, commercial mathematics, and the balance of trade 4. Payback time: reward, retaliation, and the deluge of debt 5. The goddess with the scales - and the blindfold Part III. Political Unfairness: Revenge and Resistance: 6. 'A special inward commandment': the mid-sixteenth century 7. Resistance in the golden age of revenge plays 8. Revenge and regicide: the Civil War era Part IV. Social Unfairness: Vengeance and Equality: 9. Revenge and class warfare 10. Quantification revisited: revenge and social equality Conclusion Bibliography.
Part I. Rampant Revenge: 1. Getting what one deserves 2. Can two wrongs ever make a right? Some theory Part II. Economic Unfairness: Revenge and Money: 3. Balancing the books: revenge, commercial mathematics, and the balance of trade 4. Payback time: reward, retaliation, and the deluge of debt 5. The goddess with the scales - and the blindfold Part III. Political Unfairness: Revenge and Resistance: 6. 'A special inward commandment': the mid-sixteenth century 7. Resistance in the golden age of revenge plays 8. Revenge and regicide: the Civil War era Part IV. Social Unfairness: Vengeance and Equality: 9. Revenge and class warfare 10. Quantification revisited: revenge and social equality Conclusion Bibliography.
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