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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... Cressy's dictum that the ' reformation of religion ... went hand in hand with the reformation of manners ' , 107 this Reformed view of an appropriate Christian style of mourning bears on the mourning literature of the period as a whole ...
... Cressy's dictum that the ' reformation of religion ... went hand in hand with the reformation of manners ' , 107 this Reformed view of an appropriate Christian style of mourning bears on the mourning literature of the period as a whole ...
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... Cressy , Birth , Marriage and Death : Ritual , Religion and the Life - Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1997 ) , p . 391. Performativity suffuses Cressy's view of death ; the deathbed , for example ...
... Cressy , Birth , Marriage and Death : Ritual , Religion and the Life - Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1997 ) , p . 391. Performativity suffuses Cressy's view of death ; the deathbed , for example ...
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... Cressy's stark and more general phrase , ' the new theology provided both moderate and zealous protestants with a standard against which local practices [ of remembering the dead ] could be judged ' ( Cressy , Birth , Marriage and Death ...
... Cressy's stark and more general phrase , ' the new theology provided both moderate and zealous protestants with a standard against which local practices [ of remembering the dead ] could be judged ' ( Cressy , Birth , Marriage and Death ...
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Contents
76 | |
Revenge and the Melodrama of Mourning in The Spanish Tragedy | |
Titus Andronicus and Hamlet | |
Conclusion | |
Index | |
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Andrea anti-Catholic Antonio's Revenge Atheist's Tragedy blood Bosola Brachiano Broude Broude's Broudian burial bury Cambridge University Press Catholic Catholicism ceremony Charlemont Children of Paul's Christian church claim commemorative condemnation considered contemporary controversy corpse Cressy D'Amville D'Amville's death discussion dishonoured drama Duchess of Malfi Early Modern Elizabethan emerges emotion emphasis England English especially Ferdinand Flamineo funeral funerary genre ghost godly Goths grave grief Hamlet Hieronimo highlighting historical honour Horatio implies irony Isabella Kyd's Laertes Lavinia London Lucius Marcus memorial Montferrers monument Moreover mourning Mulryne murder observed Oxford Pandulpho Paul's Theatre performances of remembrance performed remembrance Piero Pigman play play's playhouse popish pray prayers presents Protestant Purgatory Puritan Reformed Reformist religio-political religion religious Renaissance revenge tragedy Revenger's Tragedy rite ritual Roman Roman Actor scene Shakespeare skull sorrow soul Spanish Tragedy stage style suggesting superstition Tamora tears theatre theatrical thou Titus Andronicus tomb traditional vengeance Vindice Vindice's Vittoria White Devil