English revenge drama : money, resistance, equality /
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| Author / Creator: | Woodbridge, Linda, 1945- |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010. |
| Description: | xvi, 332 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8399971 |
Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- Acknowledgments
- English revenge plays discussed in this book
- Standard MLA abbreviations for Shakespeare's plays
- Note on the text
- Part I. Rampant Revenge
- 1. Getting what one deserves
- 2. Can two wrongs ever make a right? Some theory
- Part II. Economic Unfairness: Revenge and Money
- 3. Balancing the books: revenge, commercial mathematics, and the balance of trade
- 4. Payback time: reward, retaliation, and the deluge of debt
- 5. The goddess with the scales - and the blindfold
- Part III. Political Unfairness: Revenge and Resistance
- 6. ôA special inward commandmentö: the mid sixteenth century
- 7. Resistance in the golden age of revenge plays
- 8. Revenge and regicide: the Civil War era
- Part IV. Social Unfairness: Vengeance and Equality
- 9. Revenge and class warfare
- 10. Quantification revisited: revenge and social equality
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index