A most thorough study of the Elizabethan Tragedy of Revenge, its origins, development, the ethical influence affecting it and the inter-relations of the plays.
Originally published in 1966.
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Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy, 1587-1642
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Publisher
Princeton University PressYear
2015Print ISBN
9780691012599
9780691650616
eBook ISBN
9781400877300
Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- I. The Background of Revenge
- II. The Background of the Tragedies
- III. The Spanish Tragedy and the Ur-Hamlet
- IV. The School of Kyd
- V. Interlude: The Reign of the Villain
- VI. The Disapproval of Revenge
- VII. The Decadence of Revenge Tragedy
- VIII. Conclusion
- Index
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