Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy, 1587-1642 |
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Page 137
... brothers determine to work revenge for the death of their younger brother on Lussurioso , but this action proves abortive when the revengers are before them in the masque and the brothers are themselves destroyed . Vindici evolves an ...
... brothers determine to work revenge for the death of their younger brother on Lussurioso , but this action proves abortive when the revengers are before them in the masque and the brothers are themselves destroyed . Vindici evolves an ...
Page 224
... brother Sebastiano . In her intrigues she makes use of an accomplice , Velasco , whom she tricks and endeavors to saddle with the blame for her misdeeds . Very noticeable is a return to the Kydian device of parallel incident and ...
... brother Sebastiano . In her intrigues she makes use of an accomplice , Velasco , whom she tricks and endeavors to saddle with the blame for her misdeeds . Very noticeable is a return to the Kydian device of parallel incident and ...
Page 241
... brother to kill his wife , emerges as the surviving hero . Aphelia , who breaks her sacred betrothal vow in order to be a queen and brazenly defends her lack of faith , is delineated as the purest type of mistreated womanhood . Clotaire ...
... brother to kill his wife , emerges as the surviving hero . Aphelia , who breaks her sacred betrothal vow in order to be a queen and brazenly defends her lack of faith , is delineated as the purest type of mistreated womanhood . Clotaire ...
Contents
Preface vii | 3 |
The Background of the Tragedies | 41 |
The Spanish Tragedy and the UrHamlet | 62 |
Copyright | |
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accomplice action Aegisthus Alphonsus Andromana Antonio's Revenge Atheist's Tragedy Atreus audience Barabas Bel-Imperia Belleforest blood-revenge brother Castrato catastrophe cause character Chettle Claudilla Clotaire crime death deed delay Dessandro dramatic dramatists duel duelling Duke of Milan Elizabethan Elizabethan tragedy enemies England English ethical father finally Fletcher force ghost Hamlet Hieronimo Hoffman honor horror important incidents influence injury interest intrigue Italian Jew of Malta justice killed king Kyd's Kydian revenge Kydian tragedy Lorenzo lover lust Machiavellian madness Maid's Tragedy Marlowe Marston Massinger Maximus Medea moral motive murder murther novelle Orestes passion plot poison popular private revenge protagonist punishment revenge play revenge tragedy revenger of blood Revenger's Tragedy scene Seneca Shakespeare's situation slaying Spanish Tragedy stabs stage story suicide Tamora theme Thomas Thyestes Tiberius Tiberius Nero tion Titus Andronicus Tourneur tradition tragedy of revenge tragic tyrant Ur-Hamlet venge vengeance victim villain play Vindici wife wrong