Three Revenge Tragedies : The Revenger's Tragedy + The White Devil + The Changeling

Penguin, UK, 2004. Reprint. Medium Trade Paperback. Very Good. Medium Trade Paperback. 364 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Penguin, UK, 2004. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Edges of covers have superficial wear. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Following the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign in the early seventeenth century, the new court of King James was beset by political instability and moral corruption. This atmosphere provided fertile ground for the dramatists of the age, whose plays explore the ways in which social decadence and the abuse of power breed resentment and lead inexorably to violence and bloody retribution. In Tourneur's The Revenger's Tragedy, the debauched son of an Italian Duke attempts to rape the virtuous Gloriana - a veiled reference to Elizabeth I. Webster's The White Devil depicts a sinister world of intrigue and murderous infidelity, while The Changeling, perhaps Middleton's supreme achievement, powerfully portrays a woman bringing about her own unwitting destruction. All three are masterpieces of brooding intensity, dominated by images of decay, disillusionment and death. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN/EAN: 9780141441245. Inventory No: 22090171.. 9780141441245