The Ethics of Jacobean Tragedy
Author : Robert Ornstein
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Page : 432 pages
File Size : 24,33 MB
Release : 1953
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Author : Robert Ornstein
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 24,33 MB
Release : 1953
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Author : T F Wharton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 42,29 MB
Release : 1988-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349191523
Author : Robert Ornstein
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Page : 444 pages
File Size : 33,1 MB
Release : 1953
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Author : J. W. Lever
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 15,12 MB
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 100063955X
The domination of the state over the lives of individuals is, arguably, a problem of the present-day world. In this book, first published in 1971, the author finds essentially the same problem in Jacobean tragedy in the shape it assumed during the rise of the first European nation-states. The English dramatists of the early seventeenth century a
Author : Irving Ribner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 24,9 MB
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1315302136
The work of dramatists such as George Chapman, Thomas Heywood, Cyril Tourneur, John Webster, Thomas Middleton and John Ford can profitably be studied as attempts to construct a new moral order in response to the absence or weakening of the religious sanction. In this study, first published in 1962, the author examines these texts in detail, and throws a great deal of light on the plays as plays. This title will be of interest to students of English Literature, Drama and Performance.
Author : Robert Ornstein
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Page : 299 pages
File Size : 10,24 MB
Release : 1960
Category : English drama
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Author : Anja Müller-Wood
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 15,87 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9401204306
Jacobean tragedy is typically seen as translating a general dissatisfaction with the first Stuart monarch and his court into acts of calculated recklessness and cynical brutality. Drawing on theoretical influences from social history, psychoanalysis and the study of discourses, this innovative book proposes an alternative perspective: Jacobean tragedy should be seen in the light of the institutional and social concerns of the early modern stage and the ambiguities which they engendered. Although the stage’s professionalization opened up hitherto unknown possibilities of economic success and social advancement for its middle-class practitioners, the imaginative, linguistic and material conditions of their work undermined the very ambitions they generated and furthered. The close reading of play texts and other, non-dramatic sources suggests that playwrights knew that they were dealing with hazardous materials prone to turn against them: whether the language they used or the audiences for whom they wrote and upon whose money and benevolence their success depended. The notorious features of the tragedies under discussion – their bloody murders, intricately planned revenges and psychologically refined terror – testify not only to the anxiety resulting from this multifaceted professional uncertainty but also to theatre practitioners’ attempts to civilize the excesses they were staging.
Author : T. B. Tomlinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 23,74 MB
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521148276
This study combines a consideration of the general issues affecting Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedy with particular comment on plays.
Author : Maria Liatsi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 47,94 MB
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110699613
Interpretation of ancient Greek literature is often enough distorted by the preconceptions of modern times, especially on ancient morality. This is often equivalent to begging the question. If we think e.g. of aretê, which has different meanings in different contexts, we shall think in English (or in Modern Greek or in French or in German) and shall falsify the phenomena. If we are to understand the Greek concept e.g. of aretê we must study the nature of the situations in which it is applied. For it is an important fact in the study of Greek society that the Greeks used the one word (e.g. aretê) where we use different words. If we are to understand properly the texts, we have to view them in their historical and social context. Ancient Greek thought needs to be studied together with politics, ethics, and economic behaviour. Moreover, the best insights can be found in those who confine themselves to the terms of each ancient author's analysis. From this principle each of the contributions of the volume begins.
Author : Joan L Hall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,51 MB
Release : 1991-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349216526
Jacobean actors fascinated audiences with their convincingly mimetic performances; often they appeared to assume the identities of the fictional characters they impersonated. A similar dynamic emerges in several tragedies of the period, where dramatic characters are frequently changed--for better or worse--by the roles they adopt within the play illusion. This study discusses how certain plays of Jonson and Middleton reveal the destructive consequences of assuming new personae; how three of Shakespeare's tragedies explore the ambivalent results of characters' experimentation with roles; and how Webster and Ford treat role-playing (including ceremonial behavior) creatively, as a vehicle for expressing and consolidating the dramatic self.