书目名称 | Revenge Tragedy | 编辑 | Stevie Simkin | 视频video | | 概述 | Brings together essays on five key plays of the genre. Contains the work of distinguished critics . Focuses on a genre that has had a lot of scholarly attention, and offers a unique book-length invest | 丛书名称 | New Casebooks | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | Revenge has been an issue in all societies from ancient times to the present day.In western culture, the revenge plot has been one of the linchpins of narrative structure, it is central to much Greek tragedy and was immensely popular in Elizabethan and Jacobean theatres.In this volume Stevie Simkin has collected essays on five plays which are representative of this genre: .The Spanish Tragedy., .The Revenger‘s Tragedy.,. The Changeling.,. The White Devil. and .‘Tis Pity She‘s A Whore..These plays are a rich source of ideas about Renaissance society and politics; recurrent issues include sexuality, the complex relations of gender and power, and the relationship between the individual and the state..The collection as a whole demonstrates a variety of recent critical approaches to the genre, including feminist, psychoanalytic, new historicist and cultural materialist viewpoints, inspiring students to revisit these plays and to engage directly with the politics of the past and present, and the ways in which they interrelate.. | 出版日期 | Textbook 2001Latest edition | 关键词 | corpus; death; essay; experience; gender; genre; individual; knowledge; parody; play; Renaissance; rhetoric; soc | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-21397-5 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2001 |
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