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Three revenge tragedies / edited with an introduction and notes by Gāmini Salgādo.

Title: Three revenge tragedies / edited with an introduction and notes by Gāmini Salgādo.
Publication: London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2004.

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363 p. : ill.; 20 cm.

Summary

"Following the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign in the early seventeenth century, the new court of King James was beset by political instability and moral corruption. This atmosphere provided fertile ground for the dramatists of the age, whose plays explore the ways in which social decadence and the abuse of power breed resentment and lead inexorably to violence and bloody retribution. In Tourneur's The Revenger's Tragedy, the debauched son of an Italian duke attempts to rape the virtuous Gloriana - a veiled reference to Elizabeth I. Webster's The White Devil depicts a sinister world of intrigue and murderous infidelity, while The Changeling, perhaps Middleton's supreme achievement, powerfully portrays a woman bringing about her own unwitting destruction. All three are masterpieces of brooding intensity, dominated by images of decay, disillusionment and death." --Book Jacket.

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Penguin classics

Uniform Title

Three Jacobean tragedies.
Penguin classics

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Genre/Form

Drama
Théâtre.

Note

This collection originally published under title: Three Jacobean tragedies.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

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committed to retain

Contents

The revenger's tragedy / Cyril Tourneur -- The white devil / John Webster -- The changeling / Thomas Middleton.

ISBN

0141441240 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2005275574

OCLC

56540074

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Harvard Library