English Revenge Drama: Money, Resistance, Equality
Autor Linda Woodbridgeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 dec 2014
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781107463271
ISBN-10: 1107463270
Pagini: 350
Ilustrații: 3 b/w illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1107463270
Pagini: 350
Ilustrații: 3 b/w illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Part I. Rampant Revenge: 1. Getting what one deserves; 2. Can two wrongs ever make a right? Some theory; Part II. Economic Unfairness: Revenge and Money: 3. Balancing the books: revenge, commercial mathematics, and the balance of trade; 4. Payback time: reward, retaliation, and the deluge of debt; 5. The goddess with the scales - and the blindfold; Part III. Political Unfairness: Revenge and Resistance: 6. 'A special inward commandment': the mid-sixteenth century; 7. Resistance in the golden age of revenge plays; 8. Revenge and regicide: the Civil War era; Part IV. Social Unfairness: Vengeance and Equality: 9. Revenge and class warfare; 10. Quantification revisited: revenge and social equality; Conclusion; Bibliography.
Recenzii
"This is a brilliant and convincing way to account for early modern England's obsession with leveling the score."
-David Hawkes, Arizona State Univercity, TLS
-David Hawkes, Arizona State Univercity, TLS
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Descriere
This book explores the vengeance permeating English Renaissance drama, connecting bloodthirsty and blackly comic plays with economics and political resistance.