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Civil Vengeance: Literature, Culture, and Early Modern Revenge

Civil Vengeance: Literature, Culture, and Early Modern Revenge

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1501739654
ISBN13: 9781501739651
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Sep 15 2019
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

What is revenge, and what purpose does it serve? On the early modern English stage, depictions of violence and carnage--the duel between Hamlet and Laertes that leaves nearly everyone dead or the ghastly meal of human remains served at the end of Titus Andronicus--emphasize arresting acts of revenge that upset the social order. Yet the subsequent critical focus on a narrow selection of often bloody revenge plays has overshadowed subtler and less spectacular modes of vengeance present in early modern culture.

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