ENGL 31761: Revenge Tragedy: Wild Justice on the English Renaissance Stage
Primary reading
Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy
Shakespeare, Hamlet
Middleton(?), The Revenger’s Tragedy
Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
Webster, The White Devil
Middleton, Women Beware Women
Middleton and Rowley, The Changeling
Ford, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore
All of the primary texts apart from Hamlet are in David Bevington (ed.), English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology (W. W. Norton, 2002).
For Hamlet, I recommend either the Arden edition, eds Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor or the Oxford edition, ed. G. R. Hibbard.
Suggested Background Reading
Fredson Thayer Bowers, Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy, 1587-1642 (1959)
Michael Neill, ‘English Revenge Tragedy’, Rebecca Bushnell (ed), A Companion to Tragedy (2005)
Janet Clare, Revenge Tragedies of the Renaissance (2006)
Eugene D. Hill, ‘Revenge Tragedy’, A Companion to Renaissance Drama ed. Arthur F. Kinney (2002)
Stevie Simkin, Revenge Tragedy: A Casebook (2001)
John Kerrigan, Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon (1997)
Tanya Pollard, ‘Tragedy and revenge’, The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy eds Emma Smith and Garrett A. Sullivan Jr (2010).
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