%0 PDF %T At the Limit: Ethics, Sovereignty, and Subjectivity in English Revenge Tragedy. %A King, Emily. %8 2017-04-19 %R http://localhost/files/5q47s1137 %X 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 with 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. %[ 2022-10-11 %9 Text %~ Tufts Digital Library %W Institution