Revenge and gender in classical, medieval and Renaissance literature / edited by Lesel Dawson and Fiona McHardy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This collection explores a range of literary and historical texts from ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Iceland and medieval and early modern England to provide an understanding of wider historical continuities and discontinuities in representations of gender and revenge.

List of Figures; Acknowledgements and Dedication; Introduction: Female Fury and the Masculine Spirit of Vengeance; PART I. THE GENDERING OF REVENGE; 1. Why are the Erinyes Female? or, What is so Feminine about Revenge?; 2. Re-marking Revenge in Early Modern Drama; PART II. F RIENDS AND FAMILY -- 'REVENGING HOME'; 3. Vengeance and Male Devotion in Laxdæla saga and Njáls saga; 4. 'Now I am Medea': Gender, Identity and the Birth of Revenge in Seneca's Medea; 5. The Avenging Daughter in King Lear; 6. 'Brother Unkind': Annabella's Heart in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.

PART III. WOMEN'S WEAPONS; 7. Cursing-Prayers and Female Vengeance in the Ancient Greek World; 8. 'The Power of Our Mouths': Gossip as a Female Mode of Revenge; 9. 'Women's Weapons': Education and Female Revenge on the Early Modern Stage; PART IV. WOMEN TRANSMOGRIFIED; 10. The Vengeful Lioness in Greek Tragedy: A Posthumanist Perspective; 11. 'She's Turned Fury': Women Transmogrified in Revenge Plays; PART V. LAMENTATION, GENDER ROLES AND VENGEANCE; 12. A Phrygian Tale of Love and Revenge: Oenone Paridi (Ovid Heroides 5); 13. Lament and Vengeance in the Alliterative Morte Arthure.

14. What's Hecuba to Shakespeare?; 15. 'Nursed in Blood': Masculinity and Grief in Marston's Antonio's Revenge; 16. Outfacing Vengeance: Heroic Dying in Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and Ford's The Broken Heart; List of Contributors; Index.

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