Four Revenge Tragedies "Spanish Tragedy", the "Revenger's Tragedy", the "Revenge of Bussy D'ambois", and the "Atheist's Tragedy"

Author	Katharine Eisaman Maus
Format	Paperback
ISBN	9780199540532
Pages	426
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Manufacturer	Oxford University Press

The Revenge Tragedy flourished in Britain in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Each of the four plays here defines the problems of the revenge genre, and deals with fundamental moral questions about justice and the individual, while registering the strains of life in an increasingly fragile social hierarchy.