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- Title
Massinger's Strange Pirates: Strangeness, Law(s) and Genre in The Double Marriage and The Unnatural Combat.
- Authors
Gruss, Susanne
- Abstract
This article analyses the pirate figures in The Double Marriage (1619–22) and The Unnatural Combat (1624–26) by delineating the crucial role of strangeness in the depiction of piracy on the one hand and the generic status of these plays on the other. In both texts, the main pirate figure moves from strange outsider to morally upright anti-hero. Strangeness (and with it, piracy) thus serves to question and undermine the stability of the social status quo. Strangeness and unnaturalness also inherently affect the generic status of both plays. In The Unnatural Combat, a revenge plot becomes obsolete with the death of one of the protagonists; and The Double Marriage becomes strange in its undermining of generic expectations, generating a tragicomic plot and at least three different revenge plots.
- Subjects
DOUBLE Marriage, The (Theatrical production); UNNATURAL Combat, The (Theatrical production); PIRATES; ANTIHEROES; PRIVATEERING
- Publication
Critical Survey, 2022, Vol 34, Issue 2, p80
- ISSN
0011-1570
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/cs.2022.340207