Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence

By Stevie Simkin

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403944113
• ISBN13: 9781403944115
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.1"