John Banks's female tragic heroes : reimagining Tudor queens in Restoration she-tragedy / by Paula de Pando.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pando, Paula de, author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Drama and theatre in early modern Europe ; 9.

Drama and theatre in early modern Europe, 2211-341X ; volume 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Banks, John, -1706--Characters--Women.

Banks, John.

Banks, John, -1706.

Women in literature.

Heroines in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 192 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Summary:

In 'John Banks's Female Tragic Heroes', Paula de Pando offers the first monograph on Restoration playwright John Banks. De Pando analyses Banks's civic model of she-tragedy in terms of its successful adaptation of Early Modern literary traditions and its engagement with current political and cultural debates. Using Tudor queens as tragic heroes and specifically addressing female audiences, patrons and critics, Banks made women rather than men the subject of tragedy, revolutionising drama and influencing depictions of gender, politics, and history in the long eighteenth century.

Contents:

Banks's heroic dramas

The unhappy favourite and the reinvention of Tudor England

From female saints to political martyrs: Vertue betray'd, The innocent usurper, and the transformative power of the "Last dying words"

Women take centre stage: lesbian desire in The island queens

Conclusion: The legacy of she-tragedy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Pando, Paula de, author. John Banks's female tragic heroes

ISBN:

9789004379336

9004379339

OCLC:

1041894912