Revisiting Revenge Tragedy

Adam Hansen is Senior Lecturer in English at Northumbria University. He has published widely on early modern literature in its own context and ours.Marco Prandoni is Associate Professor in Dutch Studies at the University of Bologna. His research examines intercultural dynamics in early moder theatre and contemporary culture, with a specific focus on migration-related issues, cultural memory, and ecocritics.Cornelis van der Haven is Associate Professor in early modern Dutch literature at Ghent University. He has published widely about Dutch and German theatre, epic poetry and early modern cultures of violence.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionAdam Hansen, Marco Prandoni and Cornelis van der HavenPart 1 Revenge, Religion, and Politics1 The Vengeance of God in Early Modern French TragediesAnne Graham2 “Mother, Why Does He Make Us Suffer?” Dutch Revenge Tragedy and the Problem of TheodicyTom Laureys3 The Jesuit Monopoly on Revenge in Joseph PlaysDinah Wouters4 Divine Vengeance in Racine’s Biblical Plays: Esther and Athalie as Scriptural Revenge TragediesSarah I. Fengler5 From Medea to TheodoricContrasting Conceptions of Revenge on the German Stage in the 1660sHelen Watanabe-O’Kelly6 ‘Where at the Doorway Crouches Revenge’The ‘FlorisV-Plays’ (1613–1638) as a Revisitation of Revenge Tragedy in the Republic of the United ProvincesMarco PrandoniPart 2 Revenge, Affect, and Representation7 The Play’s the Thing: Deliberating Revenge in HamletVanessa Lim8 ‘Ghosts Will Haunt Me Still’: Revenge and Gender in Coriolanus and MacbethKaroline Johanna Baumann9 Vision and Vengeance in The ChangelingAdam Hansen10 ‘What Does It Matter Who I Am?’: Racial and Sexual Others in Two Spanish ‘Revenge Tragedies’Tim Vergeer11 Vengeance of the Heart: Neoclassical Theatre and the Internalisation of RevengeCornelis van der HavenIndex of Names and Characters