Three Elizabeth Domestic Tragedies
Author : Keith Stugess
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Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,47 MB
Release : 1969
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Author : Keith Stugess
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Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,47 MB
Release : 1969
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Author : Keith Sturgess
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,76 MB
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0241961467
Elizabethan domestic tragedies depicted the workings of Fortune in the lives of ordinary people, telling stories of sin, discovery, punishment and divine mercy, with their settings and characterization often enhanced by a highly entertaining blend of realism and sensationalism. Only some half-dozen survive to offset the dramas of kings and nobles in the tragedies of Shakespeare and his peers. They combined journalism and entertainment with a didactic concern, and their plots were often derived from contemporary events. Arden of Faversham (1592) and A Yorkshire Tragedy (1608) are both based on chronicles or pamphlets describing authentic murders, while A Woman Killed with Kindness (1603) by Thomas Heywood is a fictional creation, considered his masterpiece.
Author : Keith Sturgess
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,32 MB
Release : 1985
Category : English drama
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Author : Emma Whipday
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 36,97 MB
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108614787
Domestic tragedy was an innovative genre, suggesting that the lives and sufferings of ordinary people were worthy of the dramatic scope of tragedy. In this compelling study, Whipday revises the narrative of Shakespeare's plays to show how this genre, together with neglected pamphlets, ballads, and other forms of 'cheap print' about domestic violence, informed some of Shakespeare's greatest works. Providing a significant reappraisal of Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth, the book argues that domesticity is central to these plays: they stage how societal and familial pressures shape individual agency; how the integrity of the house is associated with the body of the housewife; and how household transgressions render the home permeable. Whipday demonstrates that Shakespeare not only appropriated constructions of the domestic from domestic tragedies, but that he transformed the genre, using heightened language, foreign settings, and elite spheres to stage familiar domestic worlds.
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Page : 319 pages
File Size : 49,91 MB
Release : 1969
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Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,45 MB
Release : 1969
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Author : Russell West-Pavlov
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 34,86 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9042016884
Bodies and their Spaces: System, Crisis and Transformation in Early Modern Theatre explores the emergence of the distinctively modern "gender system" at the close of the early modern period. The book investigates shifts in the gendered spaces assigned to men and women in the "public" and "private" domains and their changing modes of interconnection; in concert with these social spaces it examines the emergence of biologically based notions of sex and a novel sense of individual subjectivity. These parallel and linked transformations converged in the development of a new gender system which more efficiently enforced the requirements of patriarchy under the evolving economic conditions of merchant capitalism. These changes can be seen to be rehearsed, contested and debated in literary artefacts of the early modern period - in particular the drama. This book suggests that until the closure of the English theatres in 1642, the drama not only reflected but also exacerbated the turbulence surrounding gender configurations in transition in early modern society. The book reads a wide range of dramatic and non-dramatic texts, and interprets them with the aid of the "systems theory" developed by the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann.
Author : Joanne Shattock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 50,28 MB
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351220330
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to take her place as a major Victorian writer.
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,76 MB
Release : 1969
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Author : Leslie Stephen
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Page : 1356 pages
File Size : 41,23 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Great Britain
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