Revenge, agency, and identity from European drama to Asian film : agents of vengeance / by Eric Dodson-Robinson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The psychic body -- The body politic -- The dramatic corpus -- Violence, revenge, and metaphor in Aeschylus's Oresteia -- Rending others : ethical contagio in Seneca's thyestes -- Stoic intertexts : contagio and ethical agency -- Foreclosure and the Senecan logic of revenge -- Reges scaenici -- Failures of language in thomas kyd's the spanish tragedy and their relation to senecan revenge drama -- Self, state, and conscience in Titus Andronicus and Hamlet -- Self and state in Titus Andronicus -- Self and conscience : hamlet -- Karma, revenge, apocalypse : ran's violent victim-agent through Japanese and Western contexts -- Agents of the other in Chan-wook Park's the vengeance trilogy -- Body politics of Mr. Vengeance : harvesting organs -- The riddle of the Chaebol -- Park Kata Aeschylou -- Epilogue -- References -- General index.