The genres of Renaissance tragedy / edited by Daniel Cadman, Andrew Duxfield and Lisa Hopkins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Cadman, Daniel, editor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.

English drama.

English drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.

English drama (Tragedy).

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 222 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.

Summary:

This collection of newly commissioned essays explores the extraordinary versatility of Renaissance tragedy and shows how it enables exploration of issues ranging from gender to race to religious conflict, as well as providing us with some of the earliest dramatic representations of the lives of ordinary Englishmen and women. The book mixes perspectives from emerging scholars with those of established ones and offers the first systematic examination of the full range and versatility of Renaissance tragedy as a literary genre. It works by case study, so that each chapter offers not only a definition of a particular kind of Renaissance tragedy but also new research into a particularly noteworthy or influential example of that genre. Collectively the essays examine the work of a range of dramatists and offer a critical overview of Renaissance tragedy as a genre. --

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

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

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1784992798

9781784992798

OCLC:

1038473583