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020 _a9781408159606
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100 _aClare, Janet
245 _aFour revenge tragedies
260 _bMethuen Drama,
_c[2014]
264 4 _c2014
300 _aILL
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
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502 _aFrancis Bacon described revenge as a 'kind of wild justice'. Then as now, early modern playwrights and their theatre-going public were fascinated by the anarchic energies that a desire for retribution unleashes. Rather than rehearsing familiar conventions, each of these plays presents a unique social and cultural milieu where dark fantasies of revenge are variously played out.
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