Seeking Vengeance: Revenge Tragedy, Coherence and Scepticism from Sophocles to Shakespeare
Literary representations of revenge frequently encourage us to question the motivations behind such an impulse towards symmetry and coherence, as well as the outcomes of such a quest. In this sense, such literary representations relate closely to tragedy itself, the dramatic genre in which revenge i...
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University of Edinburgh
2011-12-01
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| Series: | Forum |
| Online Access: | http://www.forumjournal.org/article/view/678 |