Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy; The Revenger's Tragedy; The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois; And the Atheist's Tragedy by Katharine Eisaman Maus

Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy; The Revenger's Tragedy; The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois; And the Atheist's Tragedy

Katharine Eisaman Maus

464 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

fiction classics play challenging dark reflective slow-paced
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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 subvert...

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challenging 100%
dark 100%
funny 100%
reflective 100%

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Loveable characters?

It's complicated: 100%

Diverse cast of characters?

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