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

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Lesel Dawson - Part I: The Gendering of Revenge. 1. Why are the Erinyes Female? or, What is so Feminine about Revenge? / Edith Hall ; 2. Re-marking Revenge in Early Modern Drama / Alison Findlay -- Part II: Friends and Family : 'Revenging Home'. 3. Vengeance and Male Devotion in Laxdœla saga and Njáls saga / Ian Felce ; 4. 'Now I am Medea' : Gender, Identity and the Birth of Revenge in Seneca's Medea / Kathrin Winter ; 5. The Avenging Daughter in King Lear / Marguerite A. Tassi ; 6. `Brother Unkind' : Annabella's Heart in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore / Sara Eaton -- Part III: Women's Weapons. 7. Cursing-Prayers and Female Vengeance in the Ancient Greek World / Lydia Matthews and Irene Salvo ; 8. 'The Power of our Mouths' : Gossip as a Female Mode of Revenge / Fiona McHardy ; 9. 'Women's Weapons' : Education and Female Revenge on the Early Modern Stage / Chloe Kathleen Preedy -- Part IV: Women Transmogrified. 10. The Vengeful Lioness in Greek Tragedy : A Posthumanist Perspective / Alessandra Abbattista ; 11. 'She's Turned Fury' : Women Transmogrified in Revenge Plays / Janet Clare - Part V: Lamentation, Gender Roles and Vengeance. 12. A Phrygian Tale of Love and Revenge : Oenone Paridi (Ovid Heroides 5) / Andreas N. Michalopoulos ; 13. Lament and Vengeance in the Alliterative Morte Arthure / Anne Baden-Daintree ; 14. What's Hecuba to Shakespeare? / Tanya Pollard ; 15. `Nursed in Blood' : Masculinity and Grief in Marston's Antonio's Revenge / Rebecca Yearling ; 16. Outfacing Vengeance : Heroic Dying in Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and Ford's The Broken Heart / Lesel Dawson.

Subject: 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.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: Female fury and the masculine spirit of vengeance / Lesel Dawson - Part I: The Gendering of Revenge. 1. Why are the Erinyes Female? or, What is so Feminine about Revenge? / Edith Hall ; 2. Re-marking Revenge in Early Modern Drama / Alison Findlay -- Part II: Friends and Family : 'Revenging Home'. 3. Vengeance and Male Devotion in Laxdœla saga and Njáls saga / Ian Felce ; 4. 'Now I am Medea' : Gender, Identity and the Birth of Revenge in Seneca's Medea / Kathrin Winter ; 5. The Avenging Daughter in King Lear / Marguerite A. Tassi ; 6. `Brother Unkind' : Annabella's Heart in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore / Sara Eaton -- Part III: Women's Weapons. 7. Cursing-Prayers and Female Vengeance in the Ancient Greek World / Lydia Matthews and Irene Salvo ; 8. 'The Power of our Mouths' : Gossip as a Female Mode of Revenge / Fiona McHardy ; 9. 'Women's Weapons' : Education and Female Revenge on the Early Modern Stage / Chloe Kathleen Preedy -- Part IV: Women Transmogrified. 10. The Vengeful Lioness in Greek Tragedy : A Posthumanist Perspective / Alessandra Abbattista ; 11. 'She's Turned Fury' : Women Transmogrified in Revenge Plays / Janet Clare - Part V: Lamentation, Gender Roles and Vengeance. 12. A Phrygian Tale of Love and Revenge : Oenone Paridi (Ovid Heroides 5) / Andreas N. Michalopoulos ; 13. Lament and Vengeance in the Alliterative Morte Arthure / Anne Baden-Daintree ; 14. What's Hecuba to Shakespeare? / Tanya Pollard ; 15. `Nursed in Blood' : Masculinity and Grief in Marston's Antonio's Revenge / Rebecca Yearling ; 16. Outfacing Vengeance : Heroic Dying in Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and Ford's The Broken Heart / Lesel Dawson.

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.

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