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T1 A Kind of Wild Medicine: Revenge as Remedy in Early Modern England
A1 Pollard, Tanya
K1 venganza
K1 teatro
K1 Renacimiento
K1 William Shakespeare
K1 Hamlet
K1 medicina
K1 melancolía
AB Within the rich theatrical legacy left by the English Renaissance, revenge may be the best-known dramatic motif. Not only does revenge lie at the heart of the most famous tragediesby Shakespeare and his contemporaries, including Hamlet, but it also plays a crucial role inthe period’s other dramatic genres, including histories, comedies, and romances. Criticaldiscussions of this phenomenon have tended to view it in legal and political terms, butrevengers in early modern drama repeatedly describe revenge primarily as a medicine tocure illness, particularly that of melancholy. This essay examines the rhetoric of revenge asremedy in light of paradigm shifts in early modern medicine, and argues that its promi-nence and ambivalent appeal in the period’s drama suggests an urgent pressure to explorepowerful but dangerous strategies for alleviating suffering, with roots in early modern medicalupheaval.
PB Universidad de La Laguna. Servicio de Publicaciones
SN 2530-8335
YR 2005
FD 2005
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 30-dic-2024