Journeymen in Murder The Assassin in English Renaissance Drama

Name: Journeymen in Murder The Assassin in English Renaissance Drama
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ISBN: 9780198112280

ISBN-10: 0198112289

ISBN-13: 9780198112280

Edition: 1991

Authors: Martin Wiggins

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Torture and murder are the sort of dirty jobs that rich and powerful men have always considered beneath them. In sixteenth and seventeenth-century English drama, they often employed others to take care of that side of the business of being a villain. Such characters developed from being minor but memorable Elizabethan bit-parts into key figures in some of the greatest Jacobean tragedies: The White Devil, The Duchess of Malfi, and The Changeling. Journeymen in Murder shows how assassins, embroiled though they are in violence and intrigue, often served to address issues of political and moral concern in the period, such as the dangers of tyranny, or the corrupting power of money. The book's…

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List price: $76.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/23/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English