Family and the State in Early Modern Revenge Drama : Economies of Vengeance 9781136496295, 9780415807753

In this book, McMahon considers Early Modern revenge plays from a political science perspective, paying particular atten

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Family and the State in Early Modern Revenge Drama : Economies of Vengeance
9781136496295, 9780415807753

What is revenge, and what purpose does it serve? On the early modern English stage, depictions of violence and carnage―t

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Shifting attention from episodic revenge to quotidian forms, Civil Vengeance provides new insights into the manner by wh

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The thirteen chapters in this collection open up new horizons for the study of biblical drama by putting special emphasi

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In this groundbreaking study of the interaction between familial strategies of Tuscan provincial families and the politi

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This volume considers three powerful ideological forces in early modern England: money, magic and the theatre. With the

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In the history of political thought, the emergence of the modern state in early modern England has usually been treated

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In the history of political thought, the emergence of the modern state in early modern England has usually been treated

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Men and women in early modern Europe experienced their bodies very differently from the ways in which contemporary men a

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Men and women in early modern Europe experienced their bodies very differently from the ways in which contemporary men a

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This book offers a new perspective on the concept of modernity. Since its invention as a contrast to Antiquity or the Mi

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