Four Revenge Tragedies The Spanish Tragedy; The Revenger's Tragedy; The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois; and The Atheist's Tragedy

by Maus, Katharine Eisaman

• ISBN13: 9780192838780
• ISBN10: 0192838784
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The Revenge Tragedy flourished in Britain during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The classic ingredients of the genre are a quest for vengeance, mad scenes, a play within a play, and carnage. Each of the four plays here subverts the genre, and deals with fundamental moral questions about justice and the individual, while registering the strains of life in an increasingly fragile social hierarchy. This edition includes Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, the anonymous The Revenger's Tragedy (variously ascribed to Cyril Tourneur and Thomas Middleton), The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois by George Chapman, and Tourneur's The Atheist's Tragedy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	viii
Introduction	ix
Note on the Texts	xxxii
Select Bibliography	xxxiii
Chronology	xxxvi
The Spanish Tragedy	1	(92)
The Revenger's Tragedy	93	(82)
The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois	175	(74)
The Atheist's Tragedy	249	(82)
Explanatory Notes	331	(90)
Glossary	421