Noam Reisner

Performing Ethics in English Revenge Drama

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Produktbeschreibung

"Noam Reisner sets out a unique approach to Renaissance English revenge drama, demonstrating how it carried out important ethical work through audience participation and metatheatre. It offers fresh readings of key plays, including Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, Shakespeare's Hamlet and related examples by other contemporary playwrights"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9781009462440
• ISBN-10: 100946244X
• Artikelnr.: 70204713

Autorenporträt

Noam Reisner is Associate Professor at the Department of English and American Studies at Tel Aviv University. He is author of Milton and the Ineffable (2009) and John Milton's Paradise Lost: A Reading Guide (2011), and has published widely on early modern religious poetry, sermons and drama.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the mimetic ethical exercise
1. Plot holes and empty spaces: the ethics of Thomas Kyd's revenge paradigm
2. Dramatic hyperboles: Marlowe's and Shakespeare's early engagement with Kyd
3. Wild child's play: antitheatrical moral censure and Marston's revenge satire
4. Marking the ground of revenge: Hamlet's impasse and the question of spectator guilt
5. Ghosting Shakespeare's Hamlet: Hamlet's violent afterlives in the plays of Chettle and Middleton
6. Passive aggressors: Chapman's and Tourneur's moralistic revenge
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index.