Civil Vengeance : : Literature, Culture, and Early Modern Revenge / / Emily L. King.
What is revenge, and what purpose does it serve? On the early modern English stage, depictions of violence and carnage-the duel between Hamlet and Laertes that leaves nearly everyone dead or the ghastly meal of human remains served at the end of Titus Andronicus-emphasize arresting acts of revenge t...
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| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Note on Citation
- Introduction: Playing the Long Game
- 1. Teaching Revenge: Social Aspirations and the Fragmented Subject of Early Modern Conduct Books
- 2. Feeling Revenge: Emotional Transmission and Contagious Vengeance in Donne's Deaths Duell
- 3. Fantasizing about Revenge: Vagrancy and the Formation of the Social Body in Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI and Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller
- 4. Commemorating Revenge: Mourning, Memory, and Retributive Alternatives in the English Interregnum
- Afterword: What Remains of Civil Vengeance?
- Bibliography
- Index