Lesel Dawson is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Lovesickness and Gender in Early Modern English Literature (OUP, 2008) and has published journal articles on John Ford, the Elizabethan succession crisis and early modern ideas about menstruation and Quentin Tarantino. Fiona McHardy is Professor of Classics at the University of Roehampton. She is author of Revenge in Athenian Culture (London: Duckworth, 2008).

• Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements and Dedication Introduction: Female Fury and the Masculine Spirit of Vengeance, Lesel DawsonThe Gendering of Revenge1. Why are the Erinyes Female? or, What is so Feminine about Revenge?, Edith Hall2. Re-marking Revenge in Early Modern Drama, Alison FindlayFriends and Family: ‘Revenging Home’3. Vengeance and Male Devotion in Laxdæla saga and Njáls saga, Ian Felce4. 'Now I am Medea': Gender, Identity and the Birth of Revenge in Seneca’s Medea, Kathrin Winter5. The Avenging Daughter in King Lear, Marguerite Tassi6. ‘Brother Unkind’: Annabella’s Heart in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Sara EatonWomen’s Weapons7. Cursing-Prayers and Female Vengeance in the Ancient Greek World, Lydia Matthews and Irene Salvo8. ‘The Power of our Mouths’: Gossip as a Female Mode of Revenge, Fiona McHardy9. ‘Women’s Weapons’: Education and Female Revenge on the Early Modern Stage, Chloe PreedyWomen Transmogrified10. The Vengeful Lioness in Greek Tragedy: A Posthumanist Perspective, Alessandra Abbattista11. ‘She’s Turned Fury’: Women Transmogrified in Revenge Plays, Janet ClareLamentation, Gender Roles and Vengeance12. A Phrygian Tale of Love and Revenge: Oenone Paridi (Ovid Heroides 5), Andreas N. Michalopoulos13. Lament and Vengeance in the Alliterative Morte Arthure, Annie Baden-Danetree14. What’s Hecuba to Shakespeare?, Tanya Pollard15. ‘Nursed in Blood’: Masculinity and Grief in Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge, Rebecca Yearling16. Outfacing Vengeance: Heroic Dying in Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi and Ford’s The Broken Heart, Lesel DawsonDetails of Contributors

[T]his book is an important, and powerful, example of how interdisciplinary and cross-period studies can illuminate otherwise-overlooked points that lead to essential reconsiderations of subjects…

Lesel Dawson is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Lovesickness and Gender in Early Modern English Literature (OUP, 2008) and has published journal articles on John Ford, the Elizabethan succession crisis and early modern ideas about menstruation and Quentin Tarantino. Fiona McHardy is Professor of Classics at the University of Roehampton. She is author of Revenge in Athenian Culture (London: Duckworth, 2008).

• Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements and Dedication Introduction: Female Fury and the Masculine Spirit of Vengeance, Lesel DawsonThe Gendering of Revenge1. Why are the Erinyes Female? or, What is so Feminine about Revenge?, Edith Hall2. Re-marking Revenge in Early Modern Drama, Alison FindlayFriends and Family: ‘Revenging Home’3. Vengeance and Male Devotion in Laxdæla saga and Njáls saga, Ian Felce4. 'Now I am Medea': Gender, Identity and the Birth of Revenge in Seneca’s Medea, Kathrin Winter5. The Avenging Daughter in King Lear, Marguerite Tassi6. ‘Brother Unkind’: Annabella’s Heart in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Sara EatonWomen’s Weapons7. Cursing-Prayers and Female Vengeance in the Ancient Greek World, Lydia Matthews and Irene Salvo8. ‘The Power of our Mouths’: Gossip as a Female Mode of Revenge, Fiona McHardy9. ‘Women’s Weapons’: Education and Female Revenge on the Early Modern Stage, Chloe PreedyWomen Transmogrified10. The Vengeful Lioness in Greek Tragedy: A Posthumanist Perspective, Alessandra Abbattista11. ‘She’s Turned Fury’: Women Transmogrified in Revenge Plays, Janet ClareLamentation, Gender Roles and Vengeance12. A Phrygian Tale of Love and Revenge: Oenone Paridi (Ovid Heroides 5), Andreas N. Michalopoulos13. Lament and Vengeance in the Alliterative Morte Arthure, Annie Baden-Danetree14. What’s Hecuba to Shakespeare?, Tanya Pollard15. ‘Nursed in Blood’: Masculinity and Grief in Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge, Rebecca Yearling16. Outfacing Vengeance: Heroic Dying in Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi and Ford’s The Broken Heart, Lesel DawsonDetails of Contributors

[T]his book is an important, and powerful, example of how interdisciplinary and cross-period studies can illuminate otherwise-overlooked points that lead to essential reconsiderations of subjects…

Lesel Dawson is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Lovesickness and Gender in Early Modern English Literature (OUP, 2008) and has published journal articles on John Ford, the Elizabethan succession crisis and early modern ideas about menstruation and Quentin Tarantino. Fiona McHardy is Professor of Classics at the University of Roehampton. She is author of Revenge in Athenian Culture (London: Duckworth, 2008).

• Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements and Dedication Introduction: Female Fury and the Masculine Spirit of Vengeance, Lesel DawsonThe Gendering of Revenge1. Why are the Erinyes Female? or, What is so Feminine about Revenge?, Edith Hall2. Re-marking Revenge in Early Modern Drama, Alison FindlayFriends and Family: ‘Revenging Home’3. Vengeance and Male Devotion in Laxdæla saga and Njáls saga, Ian Felce4. 'Now I am Medea': Gender, Identity and the Birth of Revenge in Seneca’s Medea, Kathrin Winter5. The Avenging Daughter in King Lear, Marguerite Tassi6. ‘Brother Unkind’: Annabella’s Heart in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Sara EatonWomen’s Weapons7. Cursing-Prayers and Female Vengeance in the Ancient Greek World, Lydia Matthews and Irene Salvo8. ‘The Power of our Mouths’: Gossip as a Female Mode of Revenge, Fiona McHardy9. ‘Women’s Weapons’: Education and Female Revenge on the Early Modern Stage, Chloe PreedyWomen Transmogrified10. The Vengeful Lioness in Greek Tragedy: A Posthumanist Perspective, Alessandra Abbattista11. ‘She’s Turned Fury’: Women Transmogrified in Revenge Plays, Janet ClareLamentation, Gender Roles and Vengeance12. A Phrygian Tale of Love and Revenge: Oenone Paridi (Ovid Heroides 5), Andreas N. Michalopoulos13. Lament and Vengeance in the Alliterative Morte Arthure, Annie Baden-Danetree14. What’s Hecuba to Shakespeare?, Tanya Pollard15. ‘Nursed in Blood’: Masculinity and Grief in Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge, Rebecca Yearling16. Outfacing Vengeance: Heroic Dying in Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi and Ford’s The Broken Heart, Lesel DawsonDetails of Contributors

[T]his book is an important, and powerful, example of how interdisciplinary and cross-period studies can illuminate otherwise-overlooked points that lead to essential reconsiderations of subjects…