1st Edition
Crimes of Passion Since Shakespeare Red Mist Rage Unmasked
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Honourable anger, moral warrants for murder – Glossing Titus Andronicus
2 Othello – ‘An honourable murderer, if you will’
3 ‘Unlucky deeds’ – Passion’s progress in the nineteenthcentury courts
4 Passions contained – ‘Othello’s crime was murder and nothing else’
5 Homicidal rage in ‘modern times’ – Passion unleashed
6 Red mist’ rage unmasked
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Adrian Howe is an Honorary Principal Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia.
"Howe's book is a substantial and significant new work on loss of self-control in homicide cases, and a fine example of how painstaking study of the interrelation of law, literature and culture may pay significant scholarly dividends" Jeremy Horder, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.
