Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xlvi, 510 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783030760557
Inhalt:
Intro -- Preface: The Story Behind/of the Book -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Part I The (Dis)Embodiment of Evil in Medieval and Renaissance Moments -- 1 Contours of an Inherent Frame: The Underpinnings of Evil in Everyman -- References -- 2 If You Only Knew: Mephistopheles, Master Mirror, and the Experience of Evil -- The Elusiveness of Evil in Doctor Faustus -- Playing with Knowledge -- The Patience of Evil -- References -- 3 Recognizable Patterns of Evil in Muslim Characters in Late Medieval and Early Modern Literature -- References -- 4 Desiring Empire: The Colonial Violence of "Hijab Pornography" -- References -- 5 Villains of the High Seas: Apostasy and Piracy in George Peele's The Battle of Alcazar, The Anonymously Authored Captain Thomas Stukeley, and William Daborne's A Christian Turned Turk -- The Barbary Corsairs: Piracy's Turkish Turn -- "A Face So Full of Fraud and Villainy": Muly Mahamet and Captain Thomas Stukeley -- "Ward Sold His Country, Turned Turk, and Died a Slave": Daborne's Pirate Villain -- References -- Part II Performing Moral Deformity in the Shakespearean Moment -- 6 The Psychological Origins of Evil: The Trickster in Webster's The Duchess of Malfi -- Introduction -- The Psychology of Evil: The Trickster's Dread -- Ferdinand: Webster's Trickster -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 A Show of Illusions: Performing Villainous Magic in Shakespeare's The Tempest & -- Macbeth -- Performing Villains in Shakespeare -- The Dark Triad of Personality -- Magic and Power -- References -- 8 The Demon's Amorous Looking Glass: Reflections on the Villain's Performative Self-Fashioning in Richard III by William Shakespeare -- References -- 9 "It Is His Hand": Villainy Through Letters in Shakespeare's King Lear and Twelfth Night -- Introduction -- "A Fustian Riddle": The Anti-Familiar Letter.
Anmerkung:
Literaturangaben
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783030760540
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Performativity of villainy and evil in Anglophone literature and media Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021 ISBN 9783030760540
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 3030760545
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Allgemeines
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Anglistik
Schlagwort(e):
Englisch
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Literatur
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Film
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Fernsehsendung
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Schurke
;
Das Böse
;
Das Gute
;
Englisch
;
Literatur
;
Film
;
Fernsehsendung
;
Computerspiel
;
Schurke
;
Das Böse
;
Das Gute
;
Geschichte 1490-2020
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