Thomas Kyd

(Author)

Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy, the Revenger's Tragedy, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore and the White DevilPaperback, 3 July 2014

Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy, the Revenger's Tragedy, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore and the White Devil
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Part of Series
New Mermaids
Print Length
600 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Methuen Drama
Date Published
3 Jul 2014
ISBN-10
1408159600
ISBN-13
9781408159606

Description

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.

Product Details

Authors:
Thomas KydJohn FordJohn Webster
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
GB
Date Published:
3 July 2014
Dimensions:
19.81 x 12.95 x 4.32 cm
ISBN-10:
1408159600
ISBN-13:
9781408159606
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
600
Publisher:
Weight:
544.31 gm

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