Revenge, Agency, and Identity from European Drama to Asian Film

Eric Dodson-Robinson, PhD (2009), University of Illinois, is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. His publications explore violence and agency in Senecan and Shakespearean tragedy and their cross-cultural receptions.

• Introduction1 The Psychic Body2 The Body Politic3 The Dramatic Corpus1 Violence, Revenge, and Metaphor in Aeschylus’s Oresteia2 Rending others: Ethical Contagio in Seneca’s Thyestes1 Stoic Intertexts: Contagio and Ethical Agency2 Foreclosure and the Senecan Logic of Revenge3 Reges Scaenici3 Failures of Language in Thomas Kyd’s the Spanish Tragedy and Their Relation to Senecan Revenge Drama4 Self, State, and Conscience in Titus Andronicus and Hamlet1 Self and State in Titus Andronicus2 Self and Conscience: Hamlet5 Karma, Revenge, Apocalypse: Ran’s Violent Victim-Agent through Japanese and Western Contexts6 Agents of the Other in Chan-wook Park’s the Vengeance Trilogy1 Body Politics of Mr. Vengeance: Harvesting Organs2 The Riddle of the Chaebol3 Park kata AeschylouEpilogueReferencesGeneral Index