Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy, the Revenger's Tragedy, 'tis Pity She's a Whore and the White Devil by John Webster, Thomas Kyd, John Ford

Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy, the Revenger's Tragedy, 'tis Pity She's a Whore and the White Devil

New Mermaids

John Webster, Thomas Kyd, John Ford

600 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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Francis Bacon described revenge as a 'kind of wild justice'. Then as now, early modern playwrights and their theatre-going public were fascinated by the anarchic energies that a desire for retribution unleashes. Rather than rehearsing familiar con...

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