Author : Emma Josephine Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 11,46 MB
Release : 2010-08-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521519373
Introducing the reader to important topics in English Renaissance tragedy, this Companion presents fresh readings of key texts.
Author : T McAlindon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 38,59 MB
Release : 1988-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 134910180X
This book provides an introductory perspective on its subject together with detailed studies of the major non-Shakespearean tragedies. It assumes that the central and most disturbing insights of the plays were expressed in terms of the thought patterns of the time.
Author : Peter Holbrook
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,59 MB
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1472572823
This book's underlying claim is that English Renaissance tragedy addresses live issues in the experience of readers and spectators today: it is not a genre to be studied only for aesthetic or “heritage” reasons. The book considers the way in which tragedy in general, and English Renaissance tragedy in particular, addresses ideas of freedom, understood both from an individual and a sociopolitical perspective. Tragedy since the Greeks has addressed the constraints and necessities to which human life is subject (Fate, the gods, chance, the conflict between state and individual) as well as the human desire for autonomy and self-direction. In short, English Renaissance Tragedy: Ideas of Freedom shows how the tragic drama of Shakespeare's age addresses problems of freedom, slavery, and tyranny in ways that speak to us now.
Author : N. Liebler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 20,74 MB
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 113704957X
This book constitutes a new direction for feminist studies in English Renaissance drama. While feminist scholars have long celebrated heroic females in comedies, many have overlooked female tragic heroism, reading it instead as evidence of pervasive misogyny on the part of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Displacing prevailing arguments of "victim feminism," the contributors to this volume engage a wide range of feminist theories, and argue that female protagonists in tragedies - Jocasta, Juliet, Cleopatra, Mariam, Webster's Duchess and White Devil, among others - are heroic in precisely the same ways as their more notorious masculine counterparts.
Author : Rebecca Weld Bushnell
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 38,2 MB
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501745573
No detailed description available for "Tragedies of Tyrants".
Author : Goran V. Stanivukovic
Publisher : Renaissance Dramas and Dramatists
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 19,97 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Englisch
ISBN : 9781474419567
This book covers the development of tragedy as a dramatic genre from its earliest examples in the 1560's until the closure of the theatres in 1642. It traces the astonishingly diverse range of tragedies as they were influenced by the growth of public and private theatre venues in London. Tragedy was the most popular and the most diverse of theatrical genres during the English Renaissance; it was also the most disruptive and subversive. For Shakespeare and his contemporaries, tragedy reaches kings and queens and everyday person alike. Tragedy has rules, but these were rules that playwrights were ready to trouble and transform to meet changes in society and politics, in theatre venue, and in audience demand.
Author : Katharine Goodland
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 10,56 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780754651017
Looking at the plays of Shakespeare, Kyd, and Webster this book presents a new perspective on early modern drama grounded upon three original interrelated points. The author explores how the motif of the mourning woman on the early modern stage embodies the cultural trauma of the Reformation in England; brings to light the extent to which the figures of early modern drama recall those of the recent medieval past; and addresses how these representations embody actual mourning practices that were, after the Reformation, increasingly viewed as disturbing.
Author : John E. Curran
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,72 MB
Release : 2016-05-15
Category : Characters and characteristics in literature
ISBN : 9781611495263
This book explores representations of the individualistic character in drama, Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean, and some of the Renaissance ideas allowing for and informing them. Setting aside Shakespearean exceptionalism, the study reads a wide variety of plays to explain how intellectual context could allow for such characterization.
Author : David M Bevington
Publisher : Humanities-Ebooks
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,65 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1847603041
Author : Mary Beth Rose
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,46 MB
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1501723251
A public and highly popular literary form, English Renaissance drama affords a uniquely valuable index of the process of cultural transformation. The Expense of Spirit integrates feminist and historicist critical approaches to explore the dynamics of cultural conflict and change during a crucial period in the formation of modern sexual values. Comparing Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic representations of love and sexuality with those in contemporary moral tracts and religious writings on women, love, and marriage, Mary Beth Rose argues that such literature not only interpreted sexual sensibilities but also contributed to creating and transforming them.
