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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 1999Antonio's Revenge
by John Marston
by David Bevington, W Gair, Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay, Helen Ostovich
Part of the major re-launch of MUP's most prestigious series.. The text is supported by variant readings, detailed notes, and a statistical breakdown of word use.. A number of these plays are being performed at the Globe Theatre and in rep as well as being set on a number of drama courses.. The acclaimed and most authoritative version of these plays thought of as the 'companion' to the Arden Shakespeare.. The only commercially available edition of the play currently in print. ;
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December 2011Revenge - Eiskalte Täuschung
Ein neuer Fall für Special Agent Pendergast
by Preston, Douglas; Child, Lincoln / Übersetzt von Benthack, Michael
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May 2021Revenge – Du bist niemals sicher
Thriller
by Jackson, Lisa
Aus dem amerikanischen Englisch von Kristina Lake-Zapp
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 1996The Spanish Tragedy
Thomas Kyd
by David Bevington
The "revenge" play became the most durable and commercially successful type of drama on the Elizabethan stage. This example by Thomas Kyd, who was one of the originators of the genre, brings to life the intrigues of the Spanish court, dramatically juxtaposing romantic passion with sudden violent death and clandestine politics. The ghost of Dan Andrea and his guide Revenge observe the dark and bloody action throughout, provoking questions about the nature of the human condition. ;
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FictionHotel California
by Ramón Valdés Elizondo
Damián flees from two assassins who are chasing him on a lonely desert road. He manages to elude them but his car is running out of gas. In the distance he discovers a hotel that looks abandoned from the outside. He knocks on the door and is greeted by Mercedes, a beautiful blonde who invites him in. Inside the hotel is spectacular: every detail is taken care of to perfection, but there is something shady lurking within its walls and corridors. Damián thinks he hears voices calling his name, although he attributes them to stress and fatigue. Our anguished protagonist lives a terrifying experience when he tries to leave the next day and inexplicable things happen that prevent him from doing so. Suddenly, Damian will be trapped in this place that changes, that whispers, that makes us doubt if he is living a nightmare or if everything is a product of his hallucinations. A novel written to the rhythm of rock, with nods to horror classics and a twist that will take you to a place you may never be able, or want, to leave.
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June 2024Dark Scar
A psychological Thriller. Dr. Evelin Wolf and Alex Gutenberg 2
by Roxann Hill, Paul Wagle, Rebecca Steinberg, John Julian, Nicholas Mockridge, Alexios Saskalidis
Death lurks in the shadows Who are you? Hamburg Criminal Psychologist Dr. Evelin Wolf wonders as she examines the severely disturbed homeless man with the conspicuous scar across his face. The extremely aggressive man with no memory or identity is alleged to have committed a brutal murder. But Evelin and Assistant District Attorney Alex Gutenberg doubt his guilt and suspect there is something more behind the supposedly crystal-clear case. Shortly thereafter, Hamburg is shaken by a series of murders unparalleled in cruelty and sadism. The perverted killer draws a bloody trail across the Hanseatic city and links it with a clear message to Alex and Evelin: Revenge. Alex and Evelin work feverishly to solve both cases. In the process, they make a fatal mistake. And the killer exploits it mercilessly…
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2001The boxmaker's revenge
'Orthodoxy', 'Heterodoxy' and the politics of the parish in early Stuart London
by Peter Lake, Peter Lake, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda
This book is based on a story. Its main protagonists are a London clergyman, Stephen Denison, and a lay sectmaster and prophet, John Etherington. The dispute between the two men blew up in the mid-1620s, but its reverberations can be traced back to the 1590s and continued to 1640. Through Denison the book analyses the tensions and contradictions within the 'religion of protestants' that dominated great swathes of the early Stuart church. Through Etherington, it eavesdrops on a London puritan underground that has remained largely hidden from view and which, while it was related to, indeed, parasitic upon, was not coterminous with, the order and orthodoxy-centred puritanism of Stephen Denison. By placing the Denison/Etherington dispute in its multiple contexts, the book becomes a study of puritan theology and intra-puritan theological dispute; of lay clerical relations and of the politics of the parish; and thus of the social history of parish and puritan religion in London. ;
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FictionThe Roots of All Evil
by Paola G. Gasca
A black and white photograph; a little girl; a small town. Dolores and Jacinta are sisters-in-law who cope with parallel grief. Dolores cannot seem to find a place inside her husband’s heart, not a simple life as she is surrounded by children. Jacinta carries the burden and sadness of being unable to get pregnant. It will be Inés, one of Dolores’ daughters, who strikes the balance and determines the destiny, love, and loss path not only of those women, but of the entire town. The Roots of All Evil happens in a town where hate is so deeply grounded, and where stories get tangled up with superstition, and where the roots of both touch each other, to the point where reality is suspended between veils of evil and sheer coincidence.
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Literature & Literary StudiesAugust 2023Poison on the early modern English stage
Plants, paints and potions
by Lisa Hopkins, Bill Angus
Many early modern plays use poison, most famously Hamlet, where the murder of Old Hamlet showcases the range of issues poison mobilises. Its orchard setting is one of a number of sinister uses of plants which comment on both the loss of horticultural knowledge resulting from the Dissolution of the Monasteries and also the many new arrivals in English gardens through travel, trade, and attempts at colonisation. The fact that Old Hamlet was asleep reflects unease about soporifics troubling the distinction between sleep and death; pouring poison into the ear smuggles in the contemporary fear of informers; and it is difficult to prove. This book explores poisoning in early modern plays, the legal and epistemological issues it raises, and the cultural work it performs, which includes questions related to race, religion, nationality, gender, and humans' relationship to the environment.
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Literature & Literary StudiesSeptember 2024Tis Pity She's a Whore
By John Ford
by Martin White
John Ford's tragedy, first printed in 1633, is the first major English play to take as its theme a subject still rarely handled: fulfilled incest between brother and sister. This Revels Plays edition is a scholarly, modern-spelling edition of one of the most studied and performed of all plays of the period. White's critical introduction explores the textual and theatrical histories of the play, exploring closely its relationship to the particular stage and audience for which it was written. This Revels edition allows the modern reader to become, in Ford's words, an 'actor that but reads'.
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June 2025White Hearts
by Nnamdi Okose
Two young boys seeking to be initiated into the order of warriors, find their lives upturned when an accident wakes a vengeful goddess. This story, weaved from the oral lore and magic of the Igbo takes the reader on a journey through the lake where mermaids and crocodiles contend for power. And through enchanted kingdoms ruled by mythical spirits. A curse has been unleashed that would cause the destruction of the world. An army of both humans and mythical creatures must be raised to defend the world. Only a white heart can lead this great army.
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July 2008Avengers of Blood
Homicide in Athenian Law and Custom from Draco to Demosthenes
by Phillips, David D.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 1996The Revenger's Tragedy
Thomas Middleton / Cyril Tourneur
by R.A. Foakes
This play depicts a morally corrupt world where the desire for justice is contaminated by the obsession for revenge. The characters take pleasure in watching adultery, incest and murder. The play's chief moral spokesman, Vindice, is at the same time enamoured of and disgusted by, the luxury of the court. Locating the play in relation to the best recent criticism, and exploring its complexities with a contemporary eye, furthers the reputation of these comprehensive student editions. ;
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June 2020A Little Pig and Ten Wolves
by Yang Yongqing
While there is a story of "Three Little Pigs" in the western world, there is another story "A Little Pig and Ten Wolves" in China. An evil old wolf wanted to eat a piglet living alone but he was taught a lesson. The angry wolf found another nine wolves to take a revenge. The piggy was brave and scheming, and he repelled those wolves again.
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Children's & YAJune 2016The Legend of Qin Hou
by Cai Gao
Ethnic Tujia, one of Chinese minorities, has a hero named Qin Hou, who was born supernaturally and gifted with amazing power. When Qin Hou grew up, he assassinated the emperor with three magic arrows in order to revenge for his parents, but failed. The angry emperor sent a troop to catch him. For protecting his fellows from being besieged, Qin Hou surrendered voluntarily. At the moment when Qin Hou was killed, three golden dragons flew out from his body, and then the heaven and earth changed their colors. The emperor was scared and covered Qin Hou’s body with his dragon robe and sent it back to Tujia. The people of Tujia kept that dragon robe all the time.
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SETERU DALAM KEHENINGAN
by RUHAINI MATDARIN, EYQA ZAQUE
Three generations in a remote village, stuck with an endless grudge. Love and power are not enough to unite them. Manaf and Mujahid have deepened the suffering borne by Bidan Senah. The woman is willing to do anything to get revenge on behalf of her mother. The children of Manaf and Mujahid had to dealed terrible consequences due to their father action against Bidan Senah. Although Bidan Senah hatred against them was massive, she tried not to kill them. Instead just torture them at a leisurely pace. Bariah and Neng have tried to end the dispute between their father and Bidan Senah. Everything must end with an unexpected self-sacrifice.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2023The gift of narrative in medieval England
by Nicholas Perkins
This invigorating study places medieval romance narrative in dialogue with theories and practices of gift and exchange, opening new approaches to questions of storytelling, agency, gender and materiality in some of the most engaging literature from the Middle Ages. It argues that the dynamics of the gift are powerfully at work in romances: through exchanges of objects and people; repeated patterns of love, loyalty and revenge; promises made or broken; and the complex effects that time works on such objects, exchanges and promises. Ranging from the twelfth century to the fifteenth, and including close discussions of poetry by Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet and romances in the Auchinleck Manuscript, this book will prompt new ideas and debate amongst students and scholars of medieval literature, as well as anyone curious about the pleasures that romance narratives bring.
