Shakespeare, Revenge Tragedy and Early Modern Law: Vindictive Justice

By Derek Dunne

This book, the first to trace revenge tragedy's evolving dialogue with early modern law, draws on changing laws of evidence, food riots, piracy, and debates over royal prerogative. By taking the genre's legal potential seriously, it opens up the radical critique embedded in the revenge tragedies of Kyd, Shakespeare, Marston, Chettle and Middleton.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137572868
• ISBN13: 9781137572868
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"