Painted Devils, Siren Tongues ― The Semiotic Universe of Jacobean Tragedy

Galant offers semiotic close readings of some of the lesser known tragedies of the Jacobean period, showing how such readings can support a broad range of political and social interpretations. Her themes are the semiotics of revenge, playing with sentiments, virtuous heroines and the world of the carnivalesque, and topographies of possible worlds. Her topics include permutations of revenge in Thomas Middleton's The Revenger Tragedy, semioticising blackness in the anonymous Lust's Dominion or the Lascivious Queen, upgraded grief and romance regained in The Maid's Tragedy by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, grotesque avatar and carnivalesque justice in John Marston's The Wonder of Women or The Tragedy of Sophonisba, and discourse in limbo in John Webster's The White Devil. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Justyna Laura Galant is assistant professor in the Department of English Studies at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. She publishes on Renaissance drama, utopia and dystopia in literature, on film and the new media.