Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence

1. Introduction: Worlds Apart
Stevie Simkin

Part I. Justice and Revenge

2. Introduction: ‘Don’t Get Mad, Get Even’
Stevie Simkin

3. Revenge in Its Social Contexts: Early Modern Tragedy
Stevie Simkin

4. Revenge in Its Social Contexts: Late-Twentieth-Century Cinema
Stevie Simkin

5. ‘When the Bad Bleed, then is the Tragedy Good’: Politics, Morality and Revenge
Stevie Simkin

6. ‘Taint Not Thy Mind’: The Morality of Revenge
Stevie Simkin

Part II. Gender and Violence

7. Women Dipped in Blood: Gender, Violence and Control in Early Modern Tragedy
Stevie Simkin

8. A Thin Red Line: Gender, Violence and Contemporary Cinema
Stevie Simkin

9. Sex and Violence: The Changeling (1622) and Straw Dogs (1971)
Stevie Simkin

10. White Devils and Basic Instincts
Stevie Simkin

Part III. Death and the Damaged Body

11. Introduction: Vile Bodies
Stevie Simkin

12. Spectacles of Death
Stevie Simkin

13. Punishment and Redemption
Stevie Simkin

14. Conclusion: Gendered Revenge
Stevie Simkin

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Film and Television Studies, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literature, general, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Film History, Literary Theory