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"Say I Am Revenge" : = Violence, Performance, and the Figure of the Female Revenger in English Renaissance Drama.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"Say I Am Revenge" :/
Reminder of title:	Violence, Performance, and the Figure of the Female Revenger in English Renaissance Drama.
Author:	Zaloom, Rose M.
Description:	1 online resource (262 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-08, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-08A.
Subject:	English literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30242017click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798374406672

"Say I Am Revenge" : = Violence, Performance, and the Figure of the Female Revenger in English Renaissance Drama.
Zaloom, Rose M.

"Say I Am Revenge" :Violence, Performance, and the Figure of the Female Revenger in English Renaissance Drama. - 1 online resource (262 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-08, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Rochester, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation explores the figure of the violent female revenger in English Renaissance drama. I argue that female revengers incorporate performance tactics into their revenge plots to gain the power they need to seek violent, transgressive revenge. By "performance tactics," I mean behaviors typically associated with performance practices (including acting, disguise, and a slew of rhetorical devices) as well as behaviors that possess a performative quality to facilitate a misrepresentation of the self (including humoral manipulation, cursing, and courtship rituals.) I track the various iterations of performance tactics that appear during female revengers' preparation for and enactment of revenge to suggest that female revengers use the transformative potential that lies within performance to twist their traumas into violent vengeance. I present this argument by analyzing seven violent female revengers featured in The Maid's Tragedy, The Fatal Contract, Titus Andronicus, The Revenger's Tragedy, Pericles, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, and The Spanish Tragedy. I employ a unique method that blends close reading the plays with informed speculation about the possible staging choices of plays. I provide localized interpretations of the plays to speculate how the moments of revenge featured in these plays look, sound, and feel to argue that performance tactics are a necessary tool that grant the women in the plays the otherwise inaccessible power to seek violent revenge. My focus on female revengers who pursue violent revenge contributes a new perspective on the character type of the female revenger that deepens our understandings of revenge, gender, and the interplay between the two upon the Renaissance stage.It is rare to see literary criticism that is concerned with Renaissance drama to examine female characters who are involved in revenge plots at all. Of the few critics who discuss female revengers, most select characters who pursue educative, virtuous, restorative, and otherwise nonviolent revenge. I suggest that female revengers draw from performance tactics to create the violent actions that respond to the physical, emotional, and social traumas they experience in the plays as wronged women. I organize the chapters based on the characters' motivations for pursuing revenge (rape, the death of a child, and the social immobility brought on by quasi-singleness.).

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798374406672Subjects--Topical Terms:

516356
English literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

DramaIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

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