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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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About this book
This book, the first to trace revenge tragedy's evolving dialogue with early modern law, draws on changing laws of evidence, food riots, piracy, and debates over royal prerogative. By taking the genre's legal potential seriously, it opens up the radical critique embedded in the revenge tragedies of Kyd, Shakespeare, Marston, Chettle and Middleton.
Reviews
“The book’s narrow focus excludes plays relevant to questions about justice that would illuminate both Dunne’s general argument and the largely unquestioned definition of revenge tragedy that the book depends on. Dunne’s book opens up questions about the theater’s engagement with the law that extend well beyond the confines of revenge tragedy.” (Edward Gieskes, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol.70 (3), 2017)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Derek Dunne has taught at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, Shakespeare's Globe, London, and Queen's University, Belfast. He has published on the mathematics of revenge, trial by jury in the early modern period, and the representation of women on trial. Derek's research interests span Shakespeare's contemporary dramatists, early modern Inns of Court culture, cony-catching pamphlets and counterfeiting.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Shakespeare, Revenge Tragedy and Early Modern Law
Book Subtitle: Vindictive Justice
Authors: Derek Dunne
Series Title: Early Modern Literature in History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-57287-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-57286-8Published: 03 February 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-57287-5Published: 12 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2634-5919
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5927
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 229
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Theatre History, British and Irish Literature, Literary History