The Revenger's Tragedy: A Critical Reader

Zusatztext I’m very impressed by this series. I think its success lies in part in the general editors’ wise selection of volume editors who are both intellectually open-minded and capable of assembling strong, diverse teams of contributors. Informationen zum Autor Brian Walsh is Associate Professor of English at Yale University. He is the author of Shakespeare! the Queen's Men! and the Elizabethan Performance of History as well as of several articles and book chapters on Shakespeare and other early modern dramatists. An ideal undergraduate critical guide to a canonical early modern play Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Introduction The Revenger’s Tragedy timeline Introduction 1. The Critical Backstory 2. Performance History 3. The State of the Art 4. New Directions i) The Revenger’s Tragedy without Middleton’ii) The salvation of my oath’: Contractual Relationships and the Operation of Grace in Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy iii) The Revengers Tragedy : Affairs between Men iv) The Ends of Mourning: Middleton and Benjamin; 5: Resources Notes Select Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Brian Walsh
• Assisted by: Andrew Hiscock (Editor), Lisa Hopkins (Editor), Brian Walsh (Editor), Walsh Brian (Editor)
• Publisher: Arden shakespeare
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9781472585417
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-8541-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides; Arden Shakespeare; Arden Early Modern Drama Guides; Arden Early Modern Drama Guide
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights