{"product_id":"four-revenge-tragedies-by-john-webster-9781408159606","title":"Four Revenge Tragedies","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrancis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Kyd’s \u003cem\u003eThe Spanish Tragedy\u003c\/em\u003e, a grieving father seeks public justice for the murder of his son by envious princelings. When his attempts are thwarted, he turns a court spectacle of murder into the ‘real’ thing. Blackly comic in its tone and style, \u003cem\u003eThe Revenger’s Tragedy\u003c\/em\u003e (anon.) presents vengeance as mimetic art, witty and cruel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFord’s \u003cem\u003e’Tis Pity She’s a Whore\u003c\/em\u003e represents an innovative re-working of the genre as a brother’s love for his sister leads to his spectacular revenge on his rival, her husband, in a society in which brutal retaliation for perceived wrong is the norm. In Webster’s \u003cem\u003eThe White Devil\u003c\/em\u003e, crimes of passion ignite revenge in the courts of the Italian city-states.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis student edition contains fully annotated, modernised texts of each play together with an introduction discussing the dramatic and poetic style of each play, focusing on its action and play of ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596433604844,"sku":"9781408159606","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781408159606-four-revenge-tragedies.jpg?v=1777925208","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/four-revenge-tragedies-by-john-webster-9781408159606","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}