Going to ask my students to think about Marguerite Tassi& #39;s work on female revengers today. We read her a few weeks ago, but as a reminder, this: "For the most part, though, critical discourses have vilified female avengers . . . conceptualizing angry women who avenge wrongs

as irrational, immoral, and monstrous. . . . The very coupling of the concepts of woman and revenge, . . . activates—and upsets—long-standing gender norms of feminine nurturance, domesticity, and subordination that form the basis of Western constructions of femininity" (20).

I want to think about this in relation to *The Tragedy of Mariam* and Doris. (But also I want to think back to our discussion of Tamora.)