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Product Description: Hamlet's Problematic Revenge: Forging a Royal Mandate provides a new argument within Shakespearean studies that argues the oft-noted arrest of the play’s dramaturgical momentum, especially evident in Hamlet’s much delayed enactment of his revenge, represents in fact a succinct emblem of the “arrested development” in the moral maturity of the entire cast, most notably, Hamlet himself—as the unifying disclosure and tragic problem in the play...read more

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9781498513104 | Lexington Books, May 20, 2015, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Hamlet's Problematic Revenge: Forging a Royal Mandate provides a new argument within Shakespearean studies that argues the oft-noted arrest of the play’s dramaturgical momentum, especially evident in Hamlet’s much delayed enactment of his revenge, represents in fact a succinct emblem of the “arrested development” in the moral maturity of the entire cast, most notably, Hamlet himself—as the unifying disclosure and tragic problem in the play.

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By Steven Coates (illustrator)

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9780391038288, titled "The Shapes of Revenge: Victimization, Vengeance, and Vindictiveness in Shakespeare" | Prometheus Books, May 1, 1995, cover price $39.95 | also contains The Shapes of Revenge: Victimization, Vengeance, and Vindictiveness in Shakespeare

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9781849822299 | Mp Pub Ltd, February 17, 2015, cover price $9.99

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Product Description: Can there be a virtue in vengeance?  Can revenge do ethical work?  Can revenge be the obligation of women?  Women and Revenge in Shakespeare: Gender, Genre, and Ethics looks at Shakespeare's women and finds bold answers to questions such as these...read more

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9781575911311 | Susquehanna Univ Pr, August 1, 2012, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Can there be a virtue in vengeance?

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Product Description: In spite of our clever and urban modern logic, our sharp common sense of destruction and reaction versus the more gratifying construction and proactive action, we still weave talionic plots that go beyond staged tragedies and past eras...read more

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9781443820806 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, June 1, 2010, cover price $58.95 | About this edition: In spite of our clever and urban modern logic, our sharp common sense of destruction and reaction versus the more gratifying construction and proactive action, we still weave talionic plots that go beyond staged tragedies and past eras.

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9780391038288 | Prometheus Books, May 1, 1995, cover price $39.95 | also contains Trevor's Toothy Tale
9781573923828 | Humanity Books, May 1, 1995, cover price $48.00

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9781591022169, titled "Shapes of Revenge: Victimization, Vengeance, and Vindictiveness in Shakespeare" | Prometheus Books, September 3, 2003, cover price $29.99

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Product Description: In this study of the seventeenth century's fascination with revenge, Dr. Campbell followed a pathway of evidence that led him to certain conclusions not foreseen at the outset. In embarking on the distinct genre of revenge tragedy in the Jacobean period, Dr...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780773468566 | Edwin Mellen Pr, December 1, 2002, cover price $109.95 | About this edition: In this study of the seventeenth century's fascination with revenge, Dr.

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Product Description: Revenge has long been a central theme in Western culture. From Homer to Nietzsche, from St. Paul to Sylvia Plath, major writers have been fascinated by its emotional intensity and by the questions it raises about the nature of justice, violence, sexuality, and death...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780198121862 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 25, 1996, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Revenge has long been a central theme in Western culture.

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9780198184515 | Reprint edition (Clarendon Pr, April 23, 1998), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Revenge has long been a central theme in Western culture.

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Product Description: Text/Countertext: Postmodern Paranoia in Samuel Beckett, Doris Lessing, and Philip Roth analyzes the psychological and structural dynamic of three postmodern novels: Samuel Beckett's Malone Dies. Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, and Philip Roth's The Counterlife...read more

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9780820428710 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, June 1, 1996, cover price $46.95 | About this edition: Text/Countertext: Postmodern Paranoia in Samuel Beckett, Doris Lessing, and Philip Roth analyzes the psychological and structural dynamic of three postmodern novels: Samuel Beckett's Malone Dies.

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Product Description: This book, first full-length study of this often undervalued play, argues for a new appreciation of the power of its rhetoric, the subtlety of its characterization, and the beauty of its choral odes. Mossman also traces the powerful influence of Hecuba in the Renaissance, and compares the play with English revenge tragedies of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries...read more

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9780198147893 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 1, 1995, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: This book, first full-length study of this often undervalued play, argues for a new appreciation of the power of its rhetoric, the subtlety of its characterization, and the beauty of its choral odes.

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Book by Mercer, Peter

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9780877451716 | Univ of Iowa Pr, October 1, 1987, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: Book by Mercer, Peter
9780333433331, titled "Hamlet and the Acting of Revenge" | Palgrave Macmillan, June 18, 1987, cover price $189.00

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9781349092192, titled "Hamlet and the Acting of Revenge" | Palgrave Macmillan, January 14, 2014, cover price $179.00

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Reexamines Elizabethan attitudes toward revenge and challenges traditional interpretations of Hamlet's ethical dilemma

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9780804703161 | 2 edition (Univ Microfilms Inc, June 1, 1971), cover price $36.00 | About this edition: Reexamines Elizabethan attitudes toward revenge and challenges traditional interpretations of Hamlet's ethical dilemma

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9780804703178 | 2 edition (Stanford Univ Pr, June 1, 1977), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Reexamines Elizabethan attitudes toward revenge and challenges traditional interpretations of Hamlet's ethical dilemma

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Product Description: Book by Elliott, George Roy

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9780404023072 | Reprint edition (Ams Pr Inc, June 1, 1965), cover price $30.25 | About this edition: Book by Elliott, George Roy

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