Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Yearling, Rebecca
• Fiona McHardy
• Lesel Dawson

Titel

Nursed in Blood: Masculinity and Grief in Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge

Ist Teil von

• Revenge and Gender in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Literature, 2018, p.295

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The revenger occupies a unique position among the heroes of tragedy. As John Kerrigan argues: Most tragic protagonists are responsible for how they suffer. More than rats in traps, tennis-balls bandied by the stars, they help create the circumstances in which events unfold. . . . A revenger’s position is different. His predicament is imposed on him, and to know this is part of his plight. Injured by another, or urged towards vengeance by a raped mistress or murdered father, he is forced to adopt a role. . . . [F]or as long as he remains a revenger the proportions