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English Revenge Drama: Money, Resistance, Equality

Autor Linda Woodbridge
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 dec 2014
Vengeance permeates English Renaissance drama - for example, it crops up in all but two of Shakespeare's plays. This book explores why a supposedly forgiving Christian culture should have relished such bloodthirsty, vengeful plays. A clue lies in the plays' passion for fairness, a preoccupation suggesting widespread resentment of systemic unfairness - legal, economic, political and social. Revengers' precise equivalents - the father of two beheaded sons obliges his enemy to eat her two sons' heads - are vigilante versions of Elizabethan law, where penalties suit the crimes: thieves' hands were cut off, scolds' tongues bridled. The revengers' language of 'paying' hints at the operation of revenge in the service of economic redress. Revenge makes contact with resistance theory, justifying overthrow of tyrants, and some revengers challenge the fundamental inequity of social class. Woodbridge demonstrates how, for all their sensationalism, their macabre comedy and outlandish gore, Renaissance revenge plays do some serious cultural work.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781107463271
ISBN-10: 1107463270
Pagini: 350
Ilustrații: 3 b/w illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Part I. Rampant Revenge: 1. Getting what one deserves; 2. Can two wrongs ever make a right? Some theory; Part II. Economic Unfairness: Revenge and Money: 3. Balancing the books: revenge, commercial mathematics, and the balance of trade; 4. Payback time: reward, retaliation, and the deluge of debt; 5. The goddess with the scales - and the blindfold; Part III. Political Unfairness: Revenge and Resistance: 6. 'A special inward commandment': the mid-sixteenth century; 7. Resistance in the golden age of revenge plays; 8. Revenge and regicide: the Civil War era; Part IV. Social Unfairness: Vengeance and Equality: 9. Revenge and class warfare; 10. Quantification revisited: revenge and social equality; Conclusion; Bibliography.

Recenzii

"This is a brilliant and convincing way to account for early modern England's obsession with leveling the score."
-David Hawkes, Arizona State Univercity, TLS

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Descriere

This book explores the vengeance permeating English Renaissance drama, connecting bloodthirsty and blackly comic plays with economics and political resistance.