{"product_id":"the-revengers-tragedy-9780713682847","title":"The Revengers Tragedy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThe Editor, Brian Gibbons has been a General Editor of \u003ci\u003eThe New Mermaids \u003c\/i\u003esince 1974 and also a General Editor of \u003ci\u003eThe New Cambridge Shakespeare \u003c\/i\u003esince its inception. He is the author of many articles about English Drama, of two books, \u003ci\u003eJacobean City Comedy \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and Multiplicity\u003c\/i\u003e, and editor of editions in \u003ci\u003eThe New Mermaids \u003c\/i\u003eas well as \u003ci\u003eThe Arden Shakespeare \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew Cambridge Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"How well our barbarous and sex-crazed times relate to the horrors and refined cruelties of Thomas Middleton's extraordinary Jacobean masterpiece...A drama that makes grim, poetic fun of lust-filled aristocrats and lesser folk up to plenty of bad, some of them steaming hot for sex, adultery, murder and revenge.\" Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard, 05.06.08  \"There's a sardonic and even sadistic glee in his poetry and...a lot of dark, dangerous laughter to be found in the play.\" Benedict Nightingale, The Times, 06.06.08  \"Middleton certainly had a sardonic eye for twisted and compromised morals...His poetry is a vibrant mix of the ornate and the blunt. His so-called tragedy boldly veers into morbid farce, sparking explosive laughter.\" Kate Bassett, Independent on Sunday, 08.06.08  \"The Elizabethan and Jacobean revenge tragedies had more nasty killings and a higher body count than almost anything written by today's young pretenders, as well as a similarly steamy interest in perverse sex, too.\" Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph, 06.06.08  \"[Middleton] is black-blooded, foul-mouthed, casual, uncaring - a pioneer of our common tongue, Ossuary English.\" Ian Shuttleworth, Financial Times, 10.06.08","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018389324119,"sku":"9780713682847","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780713682847.jpg?v=1750776680","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-revengers-tragedy-9780713682847","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}