English revenge drama money, resistance, equality / [[Book] :]
Linda Woodbridge.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- xvi, 332 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-310) and index.
Rampant revenge. Getting what one deserves ; Can two wrongs ever make a right : some theory -- Economic unfairness : revenge and money. Balancing the books : revenge, commercial mathematics, and the balance of trade ; Payback time : reward, retaliation, and the deluge of debt ; The goddess with the scales- and the blindfold -- Political unfairness : revenge and resistance. "A special inward commandment" : the mid sixteenth century ; Resistance in the golden age of revenge plays ; Revenge and regicide : the Civil War era -- Social unfairness : vengeance and equality. Revenge and class warfare ; Quantification revisited : revenge and social equality.
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English drama--History and criticism.--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600. Revenge in literature. Thé?atre anglais--Histoire et critique.--16e si?ecle. Thé?atre anglais--Th?emes, motifs.--16e si?ecle. Vengeance dans la littérature.