Untimely Deaths in Renaissance Drama / Andrew Griffin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Griffin, Andrew, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--17th century--History and criticism.

English drama.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"In the decades before history was institutionalized as a scholarly discipline, historical writing was practiced by poets, record keepers, lawyers, sermonizers, mythologers, and philosophers. In the welter of competing forms of historical thought, early modern drama often operated as a site in which claims about the nature of historical change could be treated in their frequently conflicting variety. To explore this field of competing forms of historical explanation, Untimely Death in Renaissance Drama focuses on the problem of narrative abruption in a selection of historically-minded early modern plays as they rely on various strategies to make sense of biography and fatality. Arguing that narrative forms fail in the face of untimely death, Andrew Griffin shows that the disruption appears as matter of trauma, making the untimely death both a point of narrative conflict and a social problem. Exploring the formula that early modern dramatists used to make sense of lives and deaths, this book draws on the wider context of the period's culture of history writing."-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Biography, History, Catastrophe

1. Richard II, Problem Tragedy

2. A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and the Histories of London

3. Epic Tragedies in Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage

4. Military Catastrophe and Elegiac History in The Atheist's Tragedy

Conclusion: "Making Good the Conclusion": Ben Jonson and Bathetic Overliving

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

1-4875-1803-X

1-4875-1802-1

OCLC:

1109839869