The critical backstory / Heather Hirschfeld -- The revenger's tragedy on stage and screen / Lucy Munro -- The state of the art: current critical approaches to The revenger's tragedy / Christopher Crosbie -- New directions: The revenger's tragedy without Middleton / Jeremy Lopez -- New directions: the salvation of oaths: grace, swearing and Hamlet in The revenger's tragedy / Beatrice Groves -- New directions: The revenger's tragedy: affairs between men / Carol Thomas Neely -- New directions: The revenger's trauerspiel: Walter Benjamin and the secularization of theatricality / Martin Moraw -- Selected resources for teaching and studying The revenger's tragedy / Richard Brucher.