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<p><b>What is revenge, and what purpose does it serve?</b> On the early modern English stage, depictions of violence and carnage--the duel between Hamlet and Laertes that leaves nearly everyone dead or the ghastly meal of human remains served at the end of <i>Titus Andronicus</i>--emphasize arresting acts of revenge that upset the social order. Yet the subsequent critical focus on a narrow selection of often bloody "revenge plays" has overshadowed subtler and less spectacular modes of vengeance

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Author

King, Emily L.

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501739651

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Shakespeare, Literary Fiction, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Updated

2026-03-25