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1	The Persistence of Vengeance from Early Modern England to Postmodern New York Sevieri, Dominic M 18 May 2012 (has links) As a passing glance at the popular texts of any given period reveals, the subject of vengeance is nearly inescapable; on billboards, websites, and year end lists, revenge represents a curious constant even amid disparate media. This study explores the cultural commonalities that align revenge texts of the English Renaissance and exploitation films of late 20th century America. As in-depth inquiry reveals, numerous ideas and narrative tropes popularized during the Early Modern period are pushed to their logical extremes in these films. The central factor that aligns London during the Renaissance and New York at the cusp of the 1990s relates to traumatic, far-reaching changes in the urban landscape and its uses. There is an observable preoccupation, on the part of playwrights and filmmakers, with the subject of vengeance as tied to notions of locality, space, and rightful ownership. Shakespeare, William Kyd, Thomas Henenlotter, Frank Spatial Rhetoric Beard, Thomas Adams, Thomas Classical Literature and Philology Interdisciplinary Arts and Media Literature in English, British Isles Other Film and Media Studies Other Rhetoric and Composition Performance Studies