UNSW Handbook Course - Shakespeare and Revenge

Shakespeare and Revenge - ENGL5009


	Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
	School: School of English
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Postgraduate
	Units of Credit: 8
	EFTSL: 0.167 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 2
	Session Offered: See Class Timetable
	Fee Band: 1 (more info)

Description

Shakespeare made vital contributions to the genre of revenge (which remained the most popular genre on Elizabethan and Jacobean stages) not only with the notoriously horrible Titus Andronicus and the best-known revenge play of all, Hamlet, but also with major revenge comedies like Twelfth Night and The Merchant of Venice. Examines Renaissance attitudes to revenge, justice and providence, and the search by Shakespeare and some of his contemporary dramatists for appropriate forms in which to express these attitudes, under the influence of the Senecan tradition.

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