Chapter 10 The Vengeful Lioness in Greek Tragedy: A Posthumanist Perspective

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements and Dedication viii
5. Introduction: Female Fury and the Masculine Spirit of Vengeance 1
6. PART I THE GENDERING OF REVENGE
7. Chapter 1 Why are the Erinyes Female? or, What is so Feminine about Revenge? 31
8. Chapter 2 Re-marking Revenge in Early Modern Drama 58
9. PART II FRIENDS AND FAMILY – ‘REVENGING HOME’
10. Chapter 3 Vengeance and Male Devotion in Laxdæla saga and Njáls saga 83
11. Chapter 4 ‘Now I am Medea’: Gender, Identity and the Birth of Revenge in Seneca’s Medea 97
12. Chapter 5 The Avenging Daughter in King Lear 111
13. Chapter 6 ‘Brother Unkind’: Annabella’s Heart in ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore 122
14. PART III WOMEN’S WEAPONS
15. Chapter 7 Cursing-Prayers and Female Vengeance in the Ancient Greek World 139
16. Chapter 8 ‘The Power of Our Mouths’: Gossip as a Female Mode of Revenge 160
17. Chapter 9 ‘Women’s Weapons’: Education and Female Revenge on the Early Modern Stage 181
18. PART IV WOMEN TRANSMOGRIFIED
19. Chapter 10 The Vengeful Lioness in Greek Tragedy: A Posthumanist Perspective 201
20. Chapter 11 ‘She’s Turned Fury’: Women Transmogrified in Revenge Plays 221
21. PART V LAMENTATION, GENDER ROLES AND VENGEANCE
22. Chapter 12 A Phrygian Tale of Love and Revenge: Oenone Paridi (Ovid Heroides 5) 237
23. Chapter 13 Lament and Vengeance in the Alliterative Morte Arthure 251
24. Chapter 14 What’s Hecuba to Shakespeare? 264
25. Chapter 15 ‘Nursed in Blood’: Masculinity and Grief in Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge 295
26. Chapter 16 Outfacing Vengeance: Heroic Dying in Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi and Ford’s The Broken Heart 307
27. List of Contributors 326
28. Index 330