An investigation of how Renaissance English revenge drama carried out important ethical work through audience participation and metatheatre.

Can there be a virtue in vengeance? Can revenge do ethical work? Can revenge be the obligation of women? This wide-ranging literary study looks at Shakespeare's

In this book, McMahon considers Early Modern revenge plays from a political science perspective, paying particular attention to the construction of family and s

This work provides a comprehensive overview of one of the richest periods of theatre history - the drama of early modern England.

This book demonstrates how a group of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries stage the fear and exhilaration generated by encounters with the unknown a