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The Renaissance Discovery of Violence, from Boccaccio to Shakespeare
Language: en
Pages: 264
Authors: Robert Appelbaum
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-16 - Publisher: Anthem Press

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Many have wondered why the works of Shakespeare and other early modern writers are so filled with violence, with murder and mayhem. This work explains how and w
Shakespeare Against War
Language: en
Pages: 306
Authors: Robert White
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-05-31 - Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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Whilst Shakespearean drama provides eloquent calls to war, more often than not these are undercut or outweighed by compelling appeals to peaceful alternatives c
Precarious Identities
Language: en
Pages: 452
Authors: Vassiliki Markidou
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-26 - Publisher: Routledge

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This book investigates the construction of identity and the precarity of the self in the work of the Calvinist Fulke Greville (1554–1628) and the Jesuit Rober
The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus
Language: en
Pages: 127
Authors: William Shakespeare
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-04-01 - Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand

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"The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus" by William Shakespeare is a gripping and intense drama that explores themes of revenge, betrayal, and the destructive conseque
Violence, Trauma, and Virtus in Shakespeare's Roman Poems and Plays
Language: en
Pages: 242
Authors: L. Starks-Estes
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-08 - Publisher: Springer

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Employing psychoanalysis, trauma theory, and materialist perspectives, this book examines Shakespeare's appropriations of Ovid's poetry in his Roman poems and p