Table of Contents

Introduction;
1. Vindice and Vice – The Revenger’s Tragedy as Morality Play;
2. Playing with Hell: The Revenger’s Tragedy and the Infernal;
3. Calvinism and the Problematic of Character in The Revenger’s Tragedy;
4. Satirical Ethics and Efficacy in The Revenger’s Tragedy;
5. Chaste Whiteness and National Identity in The Revenger’s Tragedy;
6. ‘Cause I love swearing’: Genre, Language and Performance in The Revenger’s Tragedy;
7. ‘The Dramaturgy of The Revenger's Tragedy;
8. The 1607 Quarto and Stage Directions;
9. Objects and Gender: The Revenger’s Tragedy in Performance and on Film;
10. ‘Deny advancement, treasure, the duke’s son?’: The De-Commoditized Female in Twenty-First-Century Revenger’s Tragedy Performance;
Afterword;
Notes;
Index

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About the Author

Gretchen Minton is Professor of English at Montana State University, USA

Reviews

Provides a rigorous orientation to a single work. Entries in this series offer a snapshot of a play within current critical discourse, and the ten essays in this case are well chosen for this task.
*Studies in English Literature 1500-1900*