Revenge and Gender in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Literature / / Lesel Dawson, Fiona McHardy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Dawson, Lesel,; McHardy, Fiona,
• MitwirkendeR: Abbattista, Alessandra,; Baden-Daintree, Anne,; Clare, Janet,; Dawson, Lesel,; Eaton, Sara,; Felce, Ian,; Findlay, Alison,; Hall, Edith,; Matthews, Lydia,; McHardy, Fiona,; Michalopoulos, Andreas N.,; Pollard, Tanya,; Preedy, Chloe Kathleen,; Salvo, Irene,; Tassi, Marguerite A.,; Winter, Kathrin,; Yearling, Rebecca,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 4 B/W illustrations 3 B/W tables

Explores the representation of revenge from Classical to early modern literatureThis collection explores a range of literary and historical texts from ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Iceland and medieval and early modern England to provide an understanding of wider historical continuities and discontinuities in representations of gender and revenge.It brings together approaches from literary criticism, gender theory, feminism, drama, philosophy and ethics to allow greater discussion between these subjects and across historical periods and to provide a more complex and nuanced understanding of the ways in which ideas about gender and revenge interrelate. The coverage, from classical through to renaissance literature, gives a sense of how the revenge motifs appear over timeIt will appeal to a wide readership including those working in classics, medieval and renaissance literature, gender studies, revenge and revenge tragedy and the intertextual relations between ancient, medieval and early modern textsIt considers what constitutes the literary revenge tragedy tradition, suggesting points of continuity and difference as well as rethinking the parameters of the genreContributorsAlessandra Abbattista wrote her PhD on animal metaphors and the depiction of female avengers in Attic tragedy at the University of Roehampton. Her main research interests are ancient Greek language, literature and drama.Anne Baden-Daintree is a Teaching Fellow and Research Associate at Bristol University. Her research interests include elegy, medieval lyric poetry, and late medieval reading and devotional practices.Janet Clare is Professor of Renaissance Literature at the University of Hull. She is the author of Shakespeare’s Stage Traffic: Imitation, Borrowing and Competition in Renaissance Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2014 and 2017), Revenge Tragedies of the Renaissance, Writers and their Work (Northcote House/British Council, 2006), Drama of the English Republic 1649-1660 (Manchester University Press, 2002 and 2005), ‘Art Made Tongue-tied by Authority’: Elizabethan and Jacobean Dramatic Censorship (Manchester University Press, 1999 and 1990). She has also edited many collections, including Republic to Restoration: Legacies and Departures, which will be published by Manchester University Press in 2018.Lesel Dawson is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Lovesickness and Gender in Early Modern Literature (Oxford University Press, 2008) as well as articles on early modern drama, misogyny, menstruation and cruentation. Her research interests include Renaissance psychology and medicine, and she is currently working on a project on early modern ideas about vision, cognition and grief.Sara Eaton was Professor of English Emerita at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois until her death in 2016. She was twice recognised with the Dissinger Award for Distinguished Teaching and Service and she is the author of many articles on early modern drama, gender and courtly love.Ian Felce is the author of William Morris and the Icelandic Sagas (Boydell & Brewer, forthcoming) and several articles on medieval literature and its reception in post-medieval English literature. He is particularly interested in how medieval narratives have been transformed to meet the needs and priorities of later writers.Alison Findlay is Professor of Renaissance Drama at Lancaster University. She is the author of Women in Shakespeare: A Dictionary (Continuum, 2010), Playing Spaces in Early Women’s Drama (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Women and Dramatic Production, 1550-1700 (Longman, 2000), A Feminist Perspective on Renaissance Drama (Blackwell Publishers, 1998), Illegitimate Power: Bastards in Renaissance Drama (Manchester University Press, 1994) as well as a number of edited collections.Edit

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements and Dedication -- Introduction: Female Fury and the Masculine Spirit of Vengeance -- PART I THE GENDERING OF REVENGE -- Chapter 1 Why are the Erinyes Female? or, What is so Feminine about Revenge? -- Chapter 2 Re-marking Revenge in Early Modern Drama -- PART II FRIENDS AND FAMILY – ‘REVENGING HOME’ -- Chapter 3 Vengeance and Male Devotion in Laxdæla saga and Njáls saga -- Chapter 4 ‘Now I am Medea’: Gender, Identity and the Birth of Revenge in Seneca’s Medea -- Chapter 5 The Avenging Daughter in King Lear -- Chapter 6 ‘Brother Unkind’: Annabella’s Heart in ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore -- PART III WOMEN’S WEAPONS -- Chapter 7 Cursing-Prayers and Female Vengeance in the Ancient Greek World -- Chapter 8 ‘The Power of Our Mouths’: Gossip as a Female Mode of Revenge -- Chapter 9 ‘Women’s Weapons’: Education and Female Revenge on the Early Modern Stage -- PART IV WOMEN TRANSMOGRIFIED -- Chapter 10 The Vengeful Lioness in Greek Tragedy: A Posthumanist Perspective -- Chapter 11 ‘She’s Turned Fury’: Women Transmogrified in Revenge Plays -- PART V LAMENTATION, GENDER ROLES AND VENGEANCE -- Chapter 12 A Phrygian Tale of Love and Revenge: Oenone Paridi (Ovid Heroides 5) -- Chapter 13 Lament and Vengeance in the Alliterative Morte Arthure -- Chapter 14 What’s Hecuba to Shakespeare? -- Chapter 15 ‘Nursed in Blood’: Masculinity and Grief in Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge -- Chapter 16 Outfacing Vengeance: Heroic Dying in Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi and Ford’s The Broken Heart -- List of Contributors -- Index