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The genres of Renaissance tragedy / edited by Daniel Cadman, Andrew Duxfield and Lisa Hopkins.
- Format:
- Book
- 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).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 222 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- 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.
- Contents:
- De casibus tragedy: Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great / Andrew Duxfield
- Biblical tragedy: George Peele's David and Bethsabe / Annaliese Connolly
- Closet tragedy: Fulke Greville's Mustapha / Daniel Cadman
- Tragedy of state: Macbeth / Alisa Manninen
- Domestic tragedy: Yarington 's Two Lamentable Tragedies / Lisa Hopkins and Gemma Leggott
- Roman tragedy: the case of Jonson's Sejanus / John E. Curran, Jr
- Satiric tragedy: The Revenger's Tragedy / Gabriel A. Rieger
- Revenge tragedy: Henry Chettle's The Tragedy of Hoffman / Derek Dunne
- 'Ha, O my horror!' Grotesque tragedy in John Webster's The White Devil / Paul Frazer
- She-tragedy: lust, luxury and empire in John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's The False One / Domenico Lavascio
- Ford's Perkin Warbeck as historical tragedy / Sarah Dewar-Watson
- Caroline tragedy: James Shirley's The Traitor / Jessica Dyson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 18, 2026).
- ISBN:
- 1-5261-3826-3
- OCLC:
- 1089126449
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