Four Revenge Tragedies
Four Revenge Tragedies Francis Bacon described revenge as a 'kind of wild justice'. Rather than rehearsing familiar conventions, each of these plays presents a unique social and cultural milieu where…
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Four Revenge Tragedies
Francis Bacon described revenge as a 'kind of wild justice'. Rather than rehearsing familiar conventions, each of these plays presents a unique social and cultural milieu where dark fantasies of revenge are variously played out.In Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy a grieving father seeks public justice for the murder of his son by envious princelings. Then as now, early modern playwrights and their theatre-going public were fascinated by the anarchic energies that a desire for retribution unleashes.
Blackly comic in its tone and style, The Revenger's Tragedy (anon.) presents vengeance as mimetic art, witty and cruel. When his attempts are thwarted he turns a court spectacle of murder into the 'real' thing. Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore represents an innovative re-working of the genre as a brother's love for his sister leads to his spectacular
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