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«The Revenger's Tragedy» is the Jacobean drama by Cyril Tourneur, edited by Brian Gibbons, in paperback (108 pages, in English).
«The Revenger's Tragedy» is set in a corrupt and licentious ducal court, where the protagonist, driven by hatred and the wrongs he has suffered, plots a revenge that exposes the moral rottenness of its inhabitants. The play maintains constant tension and a ruthless portrait of lust and betrayal at court.
Edition in the New Mermaids collection, with bibliography. The work dates from the early seventeenth century.
Intended for literature students, classical theatre enthusiasts and readers interested in Elizabethan drama.
Cyril Tourneur was an English soldier, diplomat and dramatist who wrote The Atheist's Tragedy ; another play, The Revenger's Tragedy (1607), formerly ascribed to him, is now more generally attributed to Thomas Middleton.
