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Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence

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  • © 2006

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  1. Stevie Simkin

    1. University of Winchester, UK

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: Worlds Apart

    1. Introduction: Worlds Apart

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      Pages 1-17

  5. Death and the Damaged Body

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
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    2. Introduction: Vile Bodies

      • Stevie Simkin
      Pages 167-177

    3. Spectacles of Death

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      Pages 178-197

    4. Punishment and Redemption

      • Stevie Simkin
      Pages 198-212

  6. Conclusion: Gendered Revenge

    1. Conclusion: Gendered Revenge

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      Pages 213-221

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 222-264
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About this book

This study considers parallel issues in revenge tragedies of the early seventeenth-century and violent cinema of the last thirty years. It offers a series of provocative explorations of death, revenge and justice, and gender and violence. What happens when we connect The White Devil with Basic Instinct ? The Changeling or Titus Andronicus with Straw Dogs ? Doctor Faustus with Se7en ? Taxi Driver with The Spanish Tragedy ? Appealing to those with an interest in either drama or film, written in an engaging style, the book also reconsiders the high /popular culture divide, and reflects on the enduring significance of the revenge motif in Western culture over the past four hundred years, particularly in the post 9/11 context.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Winchester, UK

    Stevie Simkin

About the author

STEVIE SIMKIN is Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of Winchester, UK. His previous publications include A Preface to Marlowe, Marlowe: The Stage Plays and Revenge Tragedy: A New Casebook. He has particular interests in politicized approaches to staging the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and in Hollywood film.

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