I was really pleased when Maddy mentioned that she was envisioning lots of Jacobean style revenge this week. Revenge tragedy, as a genre, is something that I love. Its often overlooked for the pleasanter stuff that came before it and after it but, if its blood, guts and poetry that you're after then Middleton, Beaumont, Fletcher, Tourneur, a bit of Shakespeare, Rowley, Marlowe and more are where its at. A lecturer of mine at university wrote a book on Crime Fiction, of the pulp variety…
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