Christopher Crosbie is Associate Professor of English at North Carolina State University where he teaches Shakespearean drama. His research examines the influence of classical philosophy on Renaissance literature, paying particular attention to the capacity of early modern theater to appropriate received intellectual traditions in innovative ways.

With expert attention to the philosophical frameworks as well as the performance conventions of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Revenge Tragedy and Classical Philosophy on the Early Modern Stage elegantly aligns the materialist theories of Aristotle, Lucretius and others with the plots and language of revenge. A major contribution to the field, it establishes the ethical and communal power of revenge plays and their ability to dramatize vengeance as metaphysically fitting and recuperative.

• Introduction: On Revenge Tragedy and the Shaping Influence of Classical PhilosophyOeconomia and the Vegetative Soul: Thomas Kyd’s Naturalisation of Revenge in The Spanish TragedyFixing Moderation: Titus Andronicus and the Aristotelian Determination of Value‘A fine pate full of fine dirt:’ Hamlet Among the Atomists‘Vein by vein:’ The Pneumatics of Retribution in John Marston’s Antonio’s RevengeProhairesis on the Inside: The Duchess of Malfi and Epictetian VolitionEpilogue: A kind of sensible justice Index

Christopher Crosbie is Associate Professor of English at North Carolina State University where he teaches Shakespearean drama. His research examines the influence of classical philosophy on Renaissance literature, paying particular attention to the capacity of early modern theater to appropriate received intellectual traditions in innovative ways.

With expert attention to the philosophical frameworks as well as the performance conventions of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Revenge Tragedy and Classical Philosophy on the Early Modern Stage elegantly aligns the materialist theories of Aristotle, Lucretius and others with the plots and language of revenge. A major contribution to the field, it establishes the ethical and communal power of revenge plays and their ability to dramatize vengeance as metaphysically fitting and recuperative.

• Introduction: On Revenge Tragedy and the Shaping Influence of Classical PhilosophyOeconomia and the Vegetative Soul: Thomas Kyd’s Naturalisation of Revenge in The Spanish TragedyFixing Moderation: Titus Andronicus and the Aristotelian Determination of Value‘A fine pate full of fine dirt:’ Hamlet Among the Atomists‘Vein by vein:’ The Pneumatics of Retribution in John Marston’s Antonio’s RevengeProhairesis on the Inside: The Duchess of Malfi and Epictetian VolitionEpilogue: A kind of sensible justice Index

Christopher Crosbie is Associate Professor of English at North Carolina State University where he teaches Shakespearean drama. His research examines the influence of classical philosophy on Renaissance literature, paying particular attention to the capacity of early modern theater to appropriate received intellectual traditions in innovative ways.

With expert attention to the philosophical frameworks as well as the performance conventions of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Revenge Tragedy and Classical Philosophy on the Early Modern Stage elegantly aligns the materialist theories of Aristotle, Lucretius and others with the plots and language of revenge. A major contribution to the field, it establishes the ethical and communal power of revenge plays and their ability to dramatize vengeance as metaphysically fitting and recuperative.

• Introduction: On Revenge Tragedy and the Shaping Influence of Classical PhilosophyOeconomia and the Vegetative Soul: Thomas Kyd’s Naturalisation of Revenge in The Spanish TragedyFixing Moderation: Titus Andronicus and the Aristotelian Determination of Value‘A fine pate full of fine dirt:’ Hamlet Among the Atomists‘Vein by vein:’ The Pneumatics of Retribution in John Marston’s Antonio’s RevengeProhairesis on the Inside: The Duchess of Malfi and Epictetian VolitionEpilogue: A kind of sensible justice Index