Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. List of Abbreviations xii
5. Note on Citation xiii
6. Introduction: Playing the Long Game 1
7. 1. Teaching Revenge: Social Aspirations and the Fragmented Subject of Early Modern Conduct Books 22
8. 2. Feeling Revenge: Emotional Transmission and Contagious Vengeance in Donne’s Deaths Duell 48
9. 3. Fantasizing about Revenge: Vagrancy and the Formation of the Social Body in Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI and Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveller 77
10. 4. Commemorating Revenge: Mourning, Memory, and Retributive Alternatives in the English Interregnum 109
11. Afterword: What Remains of Civil Vengeance? 146
12. Bibliography 151
13. Index 167