ABSTRACT
The chapter offers insights into the way Massinger borrowed from the revenge mode typical of Italianate revenge tragedies in The Duke of Milan (1621) and The Double Marriage (1622). Written and performed in the early 1620s, both plays envision Italy through the Elizabethan and early Jacobean modes of imagining and representing the country as associated with corruption, court intrigue, lust and poisoning. Massinger gave a personal twist to the genre. While The Duke of Milan adheres to the canons of the Italianate revenge tragedy, The Double Marriage reinterprets the revenge mode by intertwining different genres.
