Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence

STEVIE SIMKIN is Head of Drama at University College, Winchester, UK. His previous publications include A Preface to Marlowe, Marlowe: The Stage Plays and Revenge Tragedy: A New Casebook. He has particular interests in politicized approaches to staging the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and in Hollywood film.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Worlds Apart PART I: JUSTICE AND REVENGE Introduction: 'Don't Get Mad, Get Even' Revenge in its Social Contexts: Early Modern Tragedy Revenge in its Social Contexts: Late Twentieth Century Cinema 'When the bad bleed, then is the tragedy good': Politics, Morality and Revenge 'Taint not thy mind': the Morality of Revenge PART II: GENDER AND VIOLENCE Women Dipped in Blood: Gender, Violence and Control in Early Modern Tragedy A Thin Red Line: Gender, Violence and Contemporary Cinema Sex and Violence: The Changeling (1622) and Straw Dogs (1971) White Devils and Basic Instincts PART III: DEATH AND THE DAMAGED BODY Introduction: Vile Bodies Spectacles of Death Punishment and Redemption Conclusion: Gendered Revenge List of Play and Film Texts Notes and References Bibliography Index