Revenge Tragedy and Classical Philosophy on the Early Modern Stage / / Christopher Crosbie.
Examines the influence of classical philosophy on revenge narratives by Shakespeare and his contemporariesAnalyses the twentieth-century development of revenge tragedy as a genre, and diagnoses the roots of modern criticism’s tendency to treat most philosophy as estranged from the violent work of re...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy : ECSSP
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editor’s Preface
- Introduction: On Revenge Tragedy and the Shaping Influence of Classical Philosophy
- 1. Oeconomia and the Vegetative Soul: Thomas Kyd’s Naturalisation of Revenge in The Spanish Tragedy
- 2. Fixing Moderation: Titus Andronicus and the Aristotelian Determination of Value
- 3. ‘A fine pate full of fine dirt’: Hamlet among the Atomists
- 4. ‘Vein by vein’: The Pneumatics of Retribution in John Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge
- 5. Prohairesis on the Inside: The Duchess of Malfi and Epictetian Volition
- Epilogue: A Kind of Sensible Justice
- Index