Time and Causality in Early Modern Drama / Linc Kesler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kesler, Linc, author.

Series:

Routledge studies in renaissance literature and culture.

Routledge studies in renaissance literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 pages).

Edition:

1 ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Taylor & Francis, 2024.

Summary:

The opening of the first theatre in 1579 created an interplay between the innovations of producers and the perceptions of orally-conditioned audiences. Located in the context of relations between the academy and Indigenous communities, this work questions our abilities, habituated to literacy, to understand oral systems.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I, A Theory of Tragedy

1 Nietzsche, Aristotle, and a Theory of Tragedy

Part II, Precursors To Tragedy

2 Epics and Narratives of Inclusion

3 "The Syllables of Time": Drama and Time in the Middle Ages

Part III, Tragedy, Time, and Revenge

4 Marlowe's "Tragic Glass" and the Decline of Analogy

5 The Spanish Tragedy and Revenge

6 Titus Andronicus

7 Hamlet

8 Othello

9 Decadent Tragedy

Part IV, Reflections on Process

10 Epilogue and Conclusions

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Publisher Number:

10.4324/9781032724355