Jacobean Tragedy

[Dave Monroe]

A few things that came up whilst searching for
info'mation on revenge tragedy.  On the "flatness" of
characters therein ...

http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cs/teaching/ms/teach/drama1/hamunf.htm

>From Francis Bacon's "On Revenge" (1625) ...

"Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which, the more
man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it
out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend
the  law; but the revenge of the wrong putteth the law
out of office. Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is
but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is
superior: for it is the prince's part to pardon."

http://www.mtsn.org.uk/staff/staffpages/cer/hamlet/A%20revenge%20tragedy.html

http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/bacon.html

http://www.indianamasons.org/imosanctum/bacon/bacon04.html

An award-winning book on revenge tragedy ...

Kerrigan, John.  Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to
   Armageddon.  New York: Oxford UP, 1996.

http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/Publications/Eagle98/Eagle98-John-2.html

http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/1998/april/0410capote.html

And see also ...

Dollimore, Jonathan.  Radical Tragedy: Religion,
   Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare
   and is Contemporaries.  Brighton: Harvester
   Wheatsheaf, 1984.

Neill, Issues of Death: Mortality and Identity
   in English Renaissance Tragedy.  New York:
   Oxford UP, 1997.

http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cs/teaching/ms/teach/drama1/Spatrah2.htm

By the way, let me know, what if any sort of schedule
we're on.  I was planning on letting loose on the
first half of Ch. 6 on Tuesday, the 21st, but am still
reseraching, stockpiling posts.  Which is probably
what I should get back to here, so ...



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