This thesis explores how Elizabethan and Jacobean revenge tragedy uses classical models as sources of authority for the revenger as well as for the task of revenge in a corrupt and confusing world. In the morally and theologically perplexed Reformation world, the classical tradition provided an attractive alternative to the age’s fraught Christianity, especially in the theatrical realm, where playwrights could build on an existing cultural awareness of works like Seneca’s plays to create new narratives. By focusing on three plays that make up a rough chronological survey of the genre, I argue that The Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger’s Tragedy, and The Revenge of Bussy D’Ambois are examples of how Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights employ th...
Revenge tragedy rose to prominence during the mid-16th century and blossomed over the course of the ...
PhD ThesisThis thesis seeks to establish the literary background to the representation of Hell in E...
grantor: University of TorontoIn many Elizabethan and Jacobean revenge tragedies, and in p...
The first book-length attempt to set the generic parameters of early modern revenge tragedy was also...
This thesis offers a materialist account of dramatic genre. It shows how English revenge tragedies w...
The Revenge Play1 in the form Thomas Kyd gave it in The Spanish Tragedy, and in the form used subseq...
This dissertation analyzes the effects of publication on Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. The dramati...
Through a close reading of the key topoi in early modern revenge tragedy, this thesis investigates t...
This paper will examine the notion of revenge, beginning with a history of the revenge tragedy genre...
In the four early modern revenge tragedies I study, Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, William Shakes...
Though it is a critical commonplace that English revenge tragedy began with Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish...
This dissertation examines the intersections between human anger and divine wrath in Tudor and Stuar...
My thesis examines how changing perceptions of the past, and escalating anxieties about the future,...
My thesis attempts to show that certain Jacobean revenge tragedies which have aroused a good deal of...
This project explores Renaissance revenge tragedy's conspicuous theatricality in light of the genre'...
Revenge tragedy rose to prominence during the mid-16th century and blossomed over the course of the ...
PhD ThesisThis thesis seeks to establish the literary background to the representation of Hell in E...
grantor: University of TorontoIn many Elizabethan and Jacobean revenge tragedies, and in p...
The first book-length attempt to set the generic parameters of early modern revenge tragedy was also...
This thesis offers a materialist account of dramatic genre. It shows how English revenge tragedies w...
The Revenge Play1 in the form Thomas Kyd gave it in The Spanish Tragedy, and in the form used subseq...
This dissertation analyzes the effects of publication on Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. The dramati...
Through a close reading of the key topoi in early modern revenge tragedy, this thesis investigates t...
This paper will examine the notion of revenge, beginning with a history of the revenge tragedy genre...
In the four early modern revenge tragedies I study, Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, William Shakes...
Though it is a critical commonplace that English revenge tragedy began with Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish...
This dissertation examines the intersections between human anger and divine wrath in Tudor and Stuar...
My thesis examines how changing perceptions of the past, and escalating anxieties about the future,...
My thesis attempts to show that certain Jacobean revenge tragedies which have aroused a good deal of...
This project explores Renaissance revenge tragedy's conspicuous theatricality in light of the genre'...
Revenge tragedy rose to prominence during the mid-16th century and blossomed over the course of the ...
PhD ThesisThis thesis seeks to establish the literary background to the representation of Hell in E...
grantor: University of TorontoIn many Elizabethan and Jacobean revenge tragedies, and in p...