Revenger's Tragedy: The State of Play

Gretchen Minton is Professor of English at Montana State University, USA

Provides a rigorous orientation to a single work. Entries in this series offer a snapshot of a play within current critical discourse, and the ten essays in this case are well chosen for this task.

• Introduction; 1. Vindice and Vice – The Revenger’s Tragedy as Morality Play;2. Playing with Hell: The Revenger’s Tragedy and the Infernal;3. Calvinism and the Problematic of Character in The Revenger’s Tragedy;4. Satirical Ethics and Efficacy in The Revenger’s Tragedy;5. Chaste Whiteness and National Identity in The Revenger’s Tragedy;6. ‘Cause I love swearing’: Genre, Language and Performance in The Revenger’s Tragedy;7. ‘The Dramaturgy of The Revenger's Tragedy; 8. The 1607 Quarto and Stage Directions;9. Objects and Gender: The Revenger’s Tragedy in Performance and on Film;10. ‘Deny advancement, treasure, the duke’s son?’: The De-Commoditized Female in Twenty-First-Century Revenger’s Tragedy Performance;Afterword;Notes;Index