Four revenge tragedies
Material type: TextCopyright date: 2014Description: ILLContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781408159606
- 822.308
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | Centeral Library First floor - Languages | 822.308 C.J.F 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 23772 |
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.
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