Context for 'The Revenger's Tragedy' by Thomas Middleton
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- Created on: 02-03-19 16:13
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- 'The Revenger's Tragedy' Context
- city comedy
- mocking social climbing of upper classes
- James I
- court corruption + bribery
- court = rich, everyone else = poor
- male favourites
- Jacobean Revenge Tragedy
- parody of this
- exaggeration
- malcontent seeking revenge
- elaborate plot
- revenge on the Duke
- ceremonial court occasions
- the masque
- parody of this
- lack of respect for the dead
- Gloriana's skull
- 'type' figures
- Medieval morality plays
- 'Lussurioso' = lustful
- 'Vindice' = revenger
- Jacobean attitudes towards revenge
- private revenge = illegal
- Bacon: "revenge is a kind of wild justice"
- Seneca
- bloody + violent
- revenge
- long rhetoric
- farce
- black humour
- elaborate revenge plot
- witty dialogue
- puns
- euphemisms
- city comedy
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