The origins of English revenge tragedy

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The origins of English revenge tragedy

George Oppitz-Trotman

(Edinburgh critical studies in renaissance culture)

Edinburgh University Press, c2021

  • : pbk

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"First published in hardback by Edinburgh University Press 2019"--T.p. verso

Bibliography: p. [221]-248

Includes index

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Charting a new course between performance studies and literary criticism, this book explores how recognition of the dramatic person is involved in theatrical materiality. It shows how the moral difficulty of revenge in plays like The Spanish Tragedy, Hamlet and The Duchess of Malfi is inseparable from the difficulty of discerning human shapes in the theatre and on the page. Intervening in a wide range of current debates within early modern studies, Oppitz-Trotman argues that the origins of English tragic drama cannot be understood without considering how the common player appears in it.

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