Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy; The Revenger's Tragedy; The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois; and The Atheist's Tragedy (Oxford World's Classics)

ISBN 10: 0192838784 / ISBN 13: 9780192838780

Published by Oxford University Press March 2000, 2000

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used trade paperback edition. lightly shelfworn, corners perhaps slightly bumped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws. Seller Inventory # 1259331

Bibliographic Details

Title: Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy;...

Publisher: Oxford University Press March 2000

Publication Date: 2000

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: VG

About this title

Synopsis:

The Revenge Tragedy flourished in Britain during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The classic ingredients of the genre are a quest for vengeance, mad scenes, a play within a play, and carnage. Each of the four plays here subverts the genre, and deals with fundamental moral questions about justice and the individual, while registering the strains of life in an increasingly fragile social hierarchy. This edition includes Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, the anonymous The Revenger's Tragedy (variously ascribed to Cyril Tourneur and Thomas Middleton), The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois by George Chapman, and Tourneur's The Atheist's Tragedy.

About the Author:

Katharine Maus is Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia.