The Politics of Revenge
Author: Paul Preston
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1134811136
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA succinct and disturbing account of the role of the Spanish Right in the course of the twentieth century.
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Five Revenge Tragedies
Author: Thomas Kyd
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2012-05-31
Total Pages: 826
ISBN-13: 0141960469
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the Elizabethan era gave way to the reign of James I, England grappled with corruption within the royal court and widespread religious anxiety. Dramatists responded with morally complex plays of dark wit and violent spectacle, exploring the nature of death, the abuse of power and vigilante justice. In Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy a father failed by the Spanish court seeks his own bloody retribution for his son's murder. Shakespeare's 1603 version of Hamlet creates an avenging Prince of unique psychological depth, while Chettle's The Tragedy of Hoffman is a fascinating reworking of Hamlet's themes, probably for a rival theatre company. In Marston's Antonio's Revenge, thwarted love leads inexorably to gory reprisals and in Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy, malcontent Vindice unleashes an escalating orgy of mayhem on a debauched Duke for his bride's murder, in a ferocious satire reflecting the mounting disillusionment of the age. Emma Smith's introduction considers the political and religious climate behind the plays and the dramatic conventions within them. This edition includes a chronology, playwrights' biographies and suggestions for further reading.
A Spanish Vengeance (Red-Hot Revenge, Book 7) (Mills & Boon Modern)
Author: Diana Hamilton
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2014-01-27
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 1472030362
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLisa Pennington will do anything to help her family–even if that means accepting an indecent proposal from the man who broke her heart! For five years Diego Raffacani has thought of nothing but Lisa–and revenge! He's sure that she will come to his bed, if only for her family's sake.
SPANISH MAGNATE, RED-HOT REVENGE
Author: Lynn Raye Harris
Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative
Published: 2015-01-12
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 459664960X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“You know nothing about me, except that I’m an excellent lover.” Alejandro hits Rebecca in her most sensitive spot, because five years ago they had a passionate affair, but now, for reasons unknown to her, he’s managed to secretly buy up all of her company. Rebecca searches desperately for a way to understand his motives and distract him enough to get back her hotel business. The desire between them spills over into the cold world of the hotel industry and heats them up again. Rebecca carefully calculates her moves, but Alejandro has long since been able to break through!
Four Revenge Tragedies
Author: Thomas Kyd
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-05-08
Total Pages: 596
ISBN-13: 1472573579
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrancis Bacon described revenge as a 'kind of wild justice'. Then as now, early modern playwrights and their theatre-going public were fascinated by the anarchic energies that a desire for retribution unleashes. Rather than rehearsing familiar conventions, each of these plays presents a unique social and cultural milieu where dark fantasies of revenge are variously played out. In Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy a grieving father seeks public justice for the murder of his son by envious princelings. When his attempts are thwarted he turns a court spectacle of murder into the 'real' thing. Blackly comic in its tone and style, The Revenger's Tragedy (anon.) presents vengeance as mimetic art, witty and cruel. Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore represents an innovative re-working of the genre as a brother's love for his sister leads to his spectacular revenge on his rival, her husband, in a society in which brutal retaliation for perceived wrong is the norm. In Webster's The White Devil crimes of passion ignite revenge in the courts of the Italian city states. This student edition contains fully annotated, modernized texts of each play together with an introduction discussing the dramatic and poetic style of each play, focusing on its action and play of ideas.
Spanish Civil War
Author: Paul Preston
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2007-05-29
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780393329872
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive history that recounts the struggles of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and the emergence of Francisco Franco as Spain's fascist dictator.
The Spanish Tragedy
Author: Thomas Kyd
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2020-07-31
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 3752381388
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproduction of the original: The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd
Doing Kyd
Author: Nicoleta Cinpoes
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2018-07-30
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1526108941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDoing Kyd reads Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, the box-office and print success of its time, as the play that established the revenge genre in England and served as a ‘pattern and precedent’ for the golden generation of early modern playwrights, from Marlowe and Shakespeare to Middleton, Webster and Ford. Interdisciplinary in approach and accessible in style, this collection is crucial in two respects: firstly, it has a wide spectrum, addressing readers with interests in the play from its early impact as the first sixteenth-century revenge tragedy, to its afterlife in print, on the stage, in screen adaptation and bibliographical studies. Secondly, the collection appears at a time when Kyd and his play are back in the spotlight, through renewed critical interest, several new stage productions between 2009 and 2013, and its firm presence in higher-education curriculum for English and drama.
Aztec Revenge
Author: Gary Jennings
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2013-08-27
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780765356260
DOWNLOAD EBOOKForced to flee after killing a man who was beating a horse, Juan the Lépero, who hides his mixed heritage to escape life as a beggar, embarks on a series of adventures as a highwayman, horse thief, and wealthy caballero before resolving to rescue a man who once saved his life.
The Spanish Tragedy
Author: Thomas Rist
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-10-20
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 1472522842
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Spanish Tragedy was the first 'revenge tragedy' on the English Renaissance stage: but for its influence, major dramas including The Revenger's Tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi and even Hamlet would not exist as they do. It is thus a key text for the study of Renaissance drama and normally appears in introductory undergraduate courses on Renaissance drama and Shakespeare. Despite its initial smash-hit status, after the closing of the theatres in 1642 the play was only once performed in Britain before its gradual revival in the 20th century. Following its first professional performance in 1973, the play has come to be recognised as a Renaissance classic, receiving frequent performance. This volume will bring together its most insightful and influential modern scholars to produce an edition read both by experts in the field and lovers of Thomas Kyd's drama.
