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The Origins of English Revenge Tragedy - Oppitz-Trotman, George
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Charting a new course between performance studies and literary criticism, this book explores how recognition of the dramatic person is involved in theatrical materiality. It shows how the moral difficulty of revenge in plays like The Spanish Tragedy, Hamlet and The Duchess of Malfi is inseparable from the difficulty of discerning human shapes in the theatre and on the page. Intervening in a wide range of current debates within early modern studies, Oppitz-Trotman argues that the origins of English tragic drama cannot be ...

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The Origins of English Revenge Tragedy 2021, Edinburgh University Press

ISBN-13: 9781474441728

Trade paperback

The Origins of English Revenge Tragedy 2019, Edinburgh University Press

ISBN-13: 9781474441711

Hardcover