Revenge Tragedy and the Drama of Commemoration in Reforming EnglandRoutledge, 2016 M12 5 - 176 pages Considering major works by Kyd, Shakespeare, Middleton and Webster among others, this book transforms current understanding of early modern revenge tragedy. Examing the genre in light of historical revisions to England's Reformations, and with appropriate regard to the social history of the dead, it shows revenge tragedy is not an anti-Catholic and Reformist genre, but one rooted in, and in dialogue with, traditional Catholic culture. Arguing its tragedies are bound to the age's funerary performances, it provides a new view of the contemporary theatre and especially its role in the religious upheavals of the period. |
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Page 77
... Catholicism , Alison Shell has argued for the unwitting entwinement of Protestantism within Catholicism , and thus for the simultaneous abhorrence and attraction of things Catholic in revenge tragedy among Protestant audiences ...
... Catholicism , Alison Shell has argued for the unwitting entwinement of Protestantism within Catholicism , and thus for the simultaneous abhorrence and attraction of things Catholic in revenge tragedy among Protestant audiences ...
Page 78
Thomas Rist. Catholics - perceive the plays ? Indeed , for what good reason should we prioritize Broude's or any other Babylonian paradigm in interpretation of the genre ? Since only a cast of Protestant prioritized it , there is no ...
Thomas Rist. Catholics - perceive the plays ? Indeed , for what good reason should we prioritize Broude's or any other Babylonian paradigm in interpretation of the genre ? Since only a cast of Protestant prioritized it , there is no ...
Page 79
... Catholicism as England's official religion , accounts of the parish of Morebath note donation for the dead : ' bestowyd a pon the hye auter [ alter ] and a pon the syd autur for a remembrans for them to be prayed for'.15 To a culture ...
... Catholicism as England's official religion , accounts of the parish of Morebath note donation for the dead : ' bestowyd a pon the hye auter [ alter ] and a pon the syd autur for a remembrans for them to be prayed for'.15 To a culture ...
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... Catholicism ' , thereafter undergoing what Patrick Collinson calls ' conversion by conformity ' and censoring the Catholic leanings of his writings : his style - personal and literary - was ' Re - formed ' . His anxiety , however ...
... Catholicism ' , thereafter undergoing what Patrick Collinson calls ' conversion by conformity ' and censoring the Catholic leanings of his writings : his style - personal and literary - was ' Re - formed ' . His anxiety , however ...
Page 86
... Catholics and religious waverers that without due memorial the dead in Purgatory would languish in torment . Fourth , the Latinate surroundings of the dramatic memorials - including an Italian or Spanish setting - suggest Catholic focus ...
... Catholics and religious waverers that without due memorial the dead in Purgatory would languish in torment . Fourth , the Latinate surroundings of the dramatic memorials - including an Italian or Spanish setting - suggest Catholic focus ...
Contents
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Revenge and the Melodrama of Mourning in The Spanish Tragedy | |
Titus Andronicus and Hamlet | |
Conclusion | |
Index | |
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