Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon (2024)

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John Kerrigan

John Kerrigan

Professor of English 2000 at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge

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4 September 1997

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9780191674280

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9780198184515

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Kerrigan, John, Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon (Oxford, 1997; online edn, Oxford Academic, 3 Oct. 2011), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198184515.001.0001, accessed 14 May 2024.

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Revenge has long been central to European culture. From Homer to Nietzsche, St Paul to Sylvia Plath, numerous major authors have been fascinated by its emotional intensity, and by the questions which it raises about violence, sexuality, death, and the nature of justice. This book explores the literature of vengeance from Greek tragedy to postmodernism, using material in several languages, as well as through opera, painting, and film, while opening new perspectives on such familiar English works as Hamlet, Clarissa, and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. By means of broad historical analysis, but also through subtle attention to the fabric of individual texts, the book shows how evolving attitudes to retribution have shaped and reconstituted tragedy in the West, and elucidates the remarkable capacity of his ancient theme to generate innovative works of art. Although this is a literary study, it makes fresh and ambitious use of ideas from anthropology, social theory, and moral philosophy.

Keywords: revenge, European culture, Homer, Nietzsche, St Paul, Sylvia Plath, emotional intensity, violence, sexuality, death

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