Revenge Tragedy
| Autor: | Derek Dunne |
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| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Zdroj: | British and Irish Literature ISBN: 9780199846719 Derek Dunne |
| DOI: | 10.1093/obo/9780199846719-0194 |
| Popis: | Revenge tragedy is one of the most recognizable subgenres of early modern English drama, containing as it does such well-known plays as The Spanish Tragedy, Hamlet, and The Revenger’s Tragedy. While the moniker of “revenge tragedy” is a retrospective coinage, it’s undeniable that authors of the period responded and reacted to each other’s writing, from the knowing title of Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge to the melancholic protagonist of Chettle’s The Tragedy of Hoffman sending up Shakespeare’s Danish prince. Revenge is a ubiquitous motive and theme in world literature, from Homer’s Iliad to Marvel’s Avengers blockbusters. Even so, the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods witnessed an unprecedented upsurge of interest in the motivations and methods of vigilants operating in a world without justice. As Titus Andronicus puts it “Terras Astraea reliquit” (4.3.4)—justice has fled the earth. At first literary criticism was most concerned with tracing how far this reflected the reality—and morality—of revenge in the early modern world, but gradually a more nuanced approach emerged that saw the genre as critiquing contemporary society on a number of fronts, from the social to the economic to the legal. |
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