Cannibalism and the Act of Revenge in Tudor-Stuart Drama

Abstract

This essay studies the persistence of cannibalism as a specter authorizing the act of revenge in Tudor-Stuart drama. A discussion of the discursive tradition of revenge as inherently masculine and the demonization of female desire as simultaneously cannibalistic and transgressive leads to a comparison of the revenge act between Shakespeare's Hamlet and John Marston's Antonio's Revenge, which is then followed by an analysis of cannibalism as the "obscene supplement" to revenge.

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