Five Revenge Tragedies
The Spanish Tragedy, Hamlet, Antonio's Revenge, The Tragedy of Hoffman, The Revenger's Tragedy
$38.13
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
16 July 2012
Summary
A new and authoritative edition of five seminal revenge tragedies, edited by Emma Smith.
As the Elizabethan era gave way to the reign of James I, England grappled with corruption within the royal court and widespread religious anxiety. Dramatists responded with morally complex plays of dark wit and violent spectacle, exploring the nature of death, the abuse of power, and vigilante justice.
In Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, a father failed by the Spanish court seeks his ow…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141192277 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141192275 |
| Author: | William Shakespeare, Emma Smith, Thomas Kyd, Thomas Middleton, John Marston, Henry Chettle |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 16 July 2012 |
| Weight: | 319g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
Critics Review
” Five Revenge Tragedies makes the core texts of the genre available to students in an affordable, accessible edition.
“Five Revenge Tragedies makes the core texts of the genre available to students in an affordable, accessible edition. Emma Smith’s introduction is scholarly and at the same time engaging, and will likely prove useful to undergraduate and graduate students a like. This is a volume which is long overdue, and a welcome edition to the Penguin catalog.”
—Gabriel A Rieger, Assistant Professor, Languages and Literature, Concord University
William Shakespeare
Emma Smith is Fellow and Tutor in English at Hertford College, Oxford. She has published widely on Shakespeare and on early modern drama, particularly on the plays in print and in performance. She is co-editor of The Elizabethan Top Ten: Defining Print Popularity in Early Modern England (Ashgate 2012) and is working on a book on the Shakespeare First Folio.
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