Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 170 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781501739668
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9781501739675
Content:
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 that upset the social order. Yet the subsequent critical focus on a narrow selection of often bloody "revenge plays" has overshadowed subtler and less spectacular modes of vengeance present in early modern culture.In Civil Vengeance, Emily L. King offers a new way of understanding early modern revenge in relation to civility and community. Rather than relegating vengeance to the social periphery, she uncovers how facets of society—church, law, and education—relied on the dynamic of retribution to augment their power such that revenge emerges as an extension of civility. To revise the lineage of revenge literature in early modern England, King rereads familiar revenge tragedies (including Marston's Antonio's Revenge and Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy) alongside a new archive that includes conduct manuals, legal and political documents, and sermons. Shifting attention from episodic revenge to "idian forms, Civil Vengeance provides new insights into the manner by which retaliation informs identity formation, interpersonal relationships, and the construction of the social body
Note:
restricted access online access with authorization star
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501739651
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe King, Emily L., 1982 - Civil vengeance Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019 ISBN 9781501739651
Language:
English
Keywords:
Englisch
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Rachetragödie
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Geschichte 1580-1660
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England
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Literatur
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Kultur
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Rache
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Geschichte 1580-1660
DOI:
10.7591/9781501739668
URL:
http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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