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Abstract: At the LimitEdward II and Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy; make use of the early modern vagabond to show how Marston's Antonio's Revenge and Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy repudiate ethics and choose a "vagabond aesthetics" that privileges unproductivity, exile, and perpetual motion; bring Beaumont and Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy and Tourneur's The Atheist's Tragedy into conversation wit... read moreh the execution of Charles I to argue that regicidal revenge, perversely enough, preserves and reifies the structure of sovereignty; and examine revenge's role in shaping the republican subject in Milton's Paradise Lost and his assorted political tracts.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2012.
Submitted to the Dept. of English.
Advisors: Lee Edelman, and Judith Haber.
Committee: Kevin Dunn, and Carla Freccero.
Keywords: Literature, and British and Irish literature.read less
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