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French origins of English tragedy / Richard Hillman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hillman, Richard, 1949- author.
- Series:
- Manchester Shakespeare collection.
- Manchester Shakespeare collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593--Criticism and interpretation.
- Marlowe, Christopher.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- English drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.
- English drama (Tragedy).
- English drama (Comedy)--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.
- English drama (Comedy).
- English literature--French influences.
- English literature.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (129 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Richard Hillman applies to tragic patterns and practices in early modern England his long-standing critical preoccupation with English-French cultural connections in the period. With primary, though not exclusive, reference on the English side to Shakespeare and Marlowe, and on the French side to a wide range of dramatic and non-dramatic material, he focuses on distinctive elements that emerge within the English tragedy of the 1590s and early 1600s. These include the self-destructive tragic hero, the apparatus of neo-Senecanism (including the Machiavellian villain) and the confrontation between the warrior-hero and the femme fatale. The broad objective is less to 'discover' influences - although some specific points of contact are proposed - than at once to enlarge and refine a common cultural space through juxtaposition and intertextual tracing. The conclusion emerges that the powerful, if ambivalent, fascination of the English for their closest Continental neighbours expressed itself not only in but through the theatre.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. On the generic cusp: Richard II, La Guisade and the invention of tragic heroes
- 2. Out of their classical depth: From pathos to bathos in early English tragedy; or, the comedy of terrors
- 3. Staging the Judith Jinx: Heads or tales?
- Bibliography
- Early texts and editions
- Critical and historical scholarship
- Textual notes.
- Notes:
- Originally published in print format: 2010.
- In-house editor: Matthew Frost.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Hillman, Richard. French origins of English tragedy,
- ISBN:
- 9781847793096
- 9781847797810
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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