Revenge Tragedy | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
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Aggeler, Geoffrey D. “Stoicism and Revenge in Marston.” English Studies 51, No. 6 (December 1970): 507-17.
Argues that Marston's Antonio's Revenge and The Malcontent “can be seen as complementary treatments of the ethical problems of revenge from the classical Stoic point of view.”
Allman, Eileen. Jacobean Revenge Tragedy and the Politics of Virtue. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1999, 212 p.
Discusses Jacobean revenge tragedies as plays which represent misogyny but do not necessarily endorse it, maintaining that “[disrespect] for women as autonomous agents of action is identified with the purveyors of tyranny and revenge, while heroic women, unsilent and disobedient, restore the ideal to the world of corrupt practice.”
Ardolino, Frank R. “Corrida of Blood in The Spanish Tragedy: Kyd's Use of Revenge as National Destiny.”...
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